Show EDUCATE MORE FARMERS it is 13 coming to be recognized as a most otivious od ivious fact that if we as a people are to again put our country on an equitable living basis we must educate more farmers not educate more farmer boys for professions but educate more for farmers from the incipiency e of the pub public he school up to wi within tb h the last fast decade the entire trend of education has been away from the farm and to ward the pro professions fusions fe even the manual train training g schools have ten dancy de ncy to swell we li the ranks of the mechanical trade at the expense of the farmers no nation can achieve permanent prosperity iros penty without a great and prosperous farming class when the farm arm decays the nation d deteriorates our farms farma are the very ve r life and heart of our coun country try some same thou though gh may ask how we are to educate more f farmers arheem very simple mke make a every free school in the land in an agri agn cultural school and a literary school bea as a secondary matter educate the youth of the land first toward that which la is most vitally necessary to our national life and when this thia is accomplished if there be leisure and means for adding the frills let them be ie added nine out of every ten high school pupils lucils on eberg emerging ig from that school enter the ranks of the toilers boilers toi lers in some department or other if in their heir education the farm has not only been leen made attractive to them but they have been given a thorough and practical knowledge of its workings then a large per cent of them will as a matter of course choose that as their occupation in life when war broke out between the allies and the central a P powers a th the andrit world stood amazed at ta the ind bonde ful perfection of the gel german mill ill abe tary machine but the cause e be hind it IS simple as A B C svery every german youth had been educated and trained as a soldier first of all after that for a No vocation cation but in time war will cease the arts of peace will again demand the attentions and energies of the world and among them their is none done to tc compare with the great art of coax we mg from mother earth her golder golden harveta harvests but you may ask if all of the tb boys are educated to a farmers life lif what of the professions 7 othere will always be some who by b natural fitness will gravitate to thi the professions enough to keep then their ranks recruited A As a matter of 0 fact these same professions coutt aid spare half of their present member and not suffer in the least educate farmers the farms are an suffering for them and the B afons 3 and trades are am overburdened overburden ei with them |