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Show AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION Trom the xerj first tfj; Inter-Moun-tain Farmer nnd Henchman has stood as champion of agricultural education and nt this time most emphalltall) for elementary Instruction along this tine In Ihe high schooli In older lo ndtanee the standard and requlren ents of the agrlcultuial colleges ln harmony with this thought Prof Albert N. Hume of Purdue l'nlversit sas. In th past tears this line of education hss not been the mist popular civilian lion advances first ikng llms if least re-slBtane- nnd for ihst reaeon systems of kniwledge founded upon the inon exact sciences are earliest detelnpd Moreoter, a dlfflculti whhh has alwats confronted sgrlculturnl schools Is the reduction or principles of plint and animal 1 reduction lo a practical 1 In atlonal eistrm eten al the present time this 1 rol I m remnlns rsrtlsllt unsoit d but It rennot be thus for miny tears to come In i mnut ible neper tend hefoii. the grsduite students Ileal! True showed ron I isltelt the post linn of agricultural ,, , , lerjiarale rrom othr sdemes Ii einnot he long In dec. lo( Ing a llxed nomen Intiire which will be recognised ihrjughout the agricultural agricul-tural world The American Assoeliiinn nf tgrlcultii raj 1 ollegrs and Pxp rlment Stations hs lak. n 1 great slep tnwurl the drafting of th.se courses f emit l Ihe resent tlm th" neiartment 1 r tgrlculliire has a mnn In the Held whose work it is to In testigste different schools an 1 colleges snd dlscocer methods for Imprneenvnt It appesr that in the past it hns lieen nee -esior tor agricultural roll-ces to admit pnnrlj prepared students Thev mild thus annum to little, more than otrlculturul high schools As one prominent edtitntnr exi reseed It thet rill 1 great measure of Bond hut placed a t 1st r'sponslbllltj up on the bachelors degree the elnj Is at hand when agrle ultural colleges mut unl-firmlt unl-firmlt arise tn the dignity of adtanced tnstru tl 111 Set on Ian schools nre rapl 11 being ci. Isbllshed in the settrnl Sntes In a num-lr num-lr of Instances thet are rovl led fnr bt Ihe public fund Wise main has this tear ft en. d mo agricultural high schools and has iiIm protll.el that her pul lie school tei hers shall 1 iss examinations In ngrl-lull ngrl-lull ire Callfornl 1 lias also u new sec-emilirv sec-emilirv iicrle iilturil si h eol of whlrh Prof ; rn nlersin will be jrlnclpil rile llrlir Cllrte school In New lork Is reel, taliliallng It. If at lnukhke sle miking full ireiaratlnn to meet tlm growing demand de-mand for Its class of Instruction ln ln dlana the Winona Agricultural Institute will open the coming September It Is prartleillt an agrle ultural academe These Beconlary schools arise nnturnllt lo meet a ileman 1 nn I do not Intade the t roper sphero of colle t,es already citab- |
