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jurious fungi, soils, location, packing and marketing, as well as kindred 
topics. What a “bureau of information” it may be and how gladly should 
the fruit growers accept the offer and use it for their own profit. 
POMOLOGY IN OUR SCHOOLS— WK AT ONE WOMAN DID. 
Chas. W. Garfield, Michigan. 
We are on the threshold of a great movement, the object of which is 
to prepare through our educational methods the boys and girls of today for 
success in the field of activity they are bound to occupy tomorrow. 
It is a plan of elimination by substitution. In the last generation 
we have learned that the study of natural science combined with mathematics, 
English and modern languages furnishes a very complete substitution for 
the so-called classical training in flitting young men and women for useful- 
ness in the world. We shall soon learn that training in the various branches 
of agriculture can perform the same function in the acquirement of culture 
and development of character that has been accorded to the classics and 
the natural sciences. We find the induction of the ethical quality into this 
style of training a more natural relationship than it is possible to secure 
in the older type of instruction, and after all is said this) is the most 
vital thing in any system of education. 
I present a simple concrete illustration of what has been done in one 
community along one line of tuition that exemplifies my contention that 
the university and college have a higher standard to attain than has ever 
been recognized, in carrying to the people in both rural and urban com- 
munities that which will fill the greatest need in the general uplift of our 
population. The adaptation of the style of educational training to the human 
needs in the various activities of life, is the greatest problem before the 
educators of today. 
This simple contribution may open a vista for the thoughtful to investi- 
gate who regard education as something more and greater than a selfish 
acquirement. 
The Country School Problem. 
It was a country school situated in the midst of a thrifty population 
about seven miles from the city. We were looking for a teacher who 
would fit into our necessities when little Miss Ellen Mercer dropped in 
at the home of the director and made her application for the position. She 
was delicate, petite, and had the appearance of being a city girl. However, 
she presented credentials which were in every way satisfactory and said she 
had taken two years at the Agricultural College. She wanted to take a 
country school and would like to enter into an arrangement for three years 
