Show f l S r r S S rats that men will g go out from the thel l titles and live on the land and make i good citizens when they are taught 5 c about the land after they get on It v Agricultural Education tion Needed Needed Viewed from both standpoints It it-i it Is Isa 4 a a demonstrated and unquestionable S fact that American public schools need far more of practical agriculture In their courses than they now teach In InS S fact the majority of them do not teach agriculture in any of its branches at all The teachers themselves as they are arc graduated to day t know nothing S of the subject Their educational system S tern tem Is in a rut from which It cannot z be he moved except by a strong popular C demand which in itself must come from an Intelligent of 5 the weak of the points system The problem Is one for the serious consideration of our most seeing far-seeing statesmen the statesmen the stemming of this centrIpetal centripetal cen cen- movement which Is overcrowding overcrowd overcrowd- ing lug our centers of Industry where men work for wages day-wages and which is steadily drawing from our rural com com- y f S 5 The TIte Hartford Farm Far School Their Own Cro Crop r S SS S S where men own the land laud they live Uye upon upon and obtain their sustenance I S from tram the soil Yet there is a an undercurrent of quiet force at work year by year becoming bet better er organized and with broader power power pow pow- er whose tendency Is to overcome this hurtful condition and stem the tide of immigration away from the land and A. A nto the already overcrowded centers la and ana aK ot I education are finding footholds here bere 5 and there and nature study courses and school gardens where children are taught to Know something of the soil soli and plants and the thereal real wonders of ol nature are no longer scoffed at or looked upon as fads S To Fit for Real Life This movement embraces the de do- domand demand mand for the teaching of domestic J science and both agriculture and manual man- man c. c ual training In all the public schools S. S so that children shall be taught to work with their hands and to force fr k 5 from the soil the greatest possible production as they to-day to learn in the public schools of France Denmark and anti other of the older countries The new newS movement maintains that every school S should have a school garden where every ev- ev every ev ery child should be intelligently taught to be hot a lover of nf nature and of the country u iria and d' d trained toward the land as asa asa S a source of honorable livelihood rather rath rath- L er than away from it Some of ot the work of the Department t of Agriculture shows the tremendous us S S need which exists for farm training IS Need for fOI Farm Teaching Teachings f. f S To be a successful farmer to-day to c 5 means that a man must not be satisfied to plant and reap as s his father did before before be be- f fore re him but that he must study the conditions of his soil and climate anc and andS S if necessary discard a as unprofitable the crops which have been raised In his locality from time i immemorial memorial am and substitute those which scientific exper ex ex- ex- ex per ments have demonstrated are th the S 5 greatest money makers he must study th the breeding of plants as he would th the theS S breeding of animals he must learn how bow to fight and overcome the man many many S insects and other enemies of his crops crop and live lire stock in a word he must deS devote de de- de S vote as much hard study and thought though to farming as he would to any other othe chosen trade or profession which h he I. I might elect to engage In If it he move moved ln into o a city community No Nc young ma mar would expect to pass from the farn Into the city and make even a bare living liv liv- ing unless he felt himself c. c S r S' S i sr S v g S. S 1 IF IFf lE t tlE E f r S S St TIrE THE NEW V GRIMSBY WITH TU ITS BIG BIO LIGHTHOUSE I S trained and educated to meet his city competitors No more can the farmer fanner farmerS abreast of the thet S o of to-day to expect to keep t procession unless he equips himself which wilt will enable enableS with a knowledge S W m-W to reap rep full tuU of ot the farm tarm a |