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Show o EDUCATION FOR THE FARMERS OF TOMORROW The satisfactory solution of many agricultural problems, prob-lems, in the opinion of Dean Chris L. Christensen of the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, will be greatly advanced by better education for farm youth. Any sound curriculum of study must be built around social and cultural, as well as vocational interests. The young farmer must be taught . nutritional chemistry, bacteriology, bac-teriology, farm mechanics and engineering, forestry, the handling of farm insects and pests. And he must be taught, as well, the importance and methods of cooperative activity, which is the greatest social, as well as economic factor in the life of the modern American farmer. The farmer's reliance- on cooperative organizations, Dean Christensen believes, will steadily increase in the future. These organizations, when well-managed and supported, sup-ported, have proven their worth they have passed the realm of theory. They have brought business technique to-'agriculture to-'agriculture and doing that, in many cases, has wrought order out of chaos. The youth of the farm is its great hope for the future and soundly-conceived programs, designed to educate boys and girls in all the problems they will face as timie passes, will immeasurably brighten the long-pull outlook for agriculture. agri-culture. r . |