Show the influence ot the parm tho farm Is the best security we have for our social well being and whatever promotes interest there whatever raises it in intelligence and scientific spirit is one of the most comforting influences of our civilization and so to have our young men imbued with the true agricultural spirit to turn away from the adventurer of the commercial life and the allure ments of mere money making to the simple productive independent life on the farm la one of the richest promises in our educational system for there Is where it belongs to the expanding mind force of the nation the finest triumphs of the nest fifty years results that will go further than all other enterprise in blessing men will be won on the farm there Is a science of soil culture and the art that is to be based upon it will open wide the deorto men of thought and refinement the answer of the old artist that he mixed his paint with brains is akin tc the experience in the farming of the future which will mix brains with the soil columbus 0 journal |