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Show KOCCATU .MOKE KAHMKHS It hi corning to bo recognized aa a moat obvious fact that If we aa a peo. pl are to again put our country on no. equitable living hauls we must ' educate mora farmers. Not educate ' more farmer boys for professions, bat educate wore BOYS for FARM-. FARM-. KU3. From the lnclplency of the public school op to within the lunt decade the entire trend of education has been away from the farm and toward ' the professions. Even the manual training bcIiooIb have tended to swell the ranks of the merchanlcal traded at the expense of the farms. No nation can achieve permanent prosperity without a great and prosperous pros-perous farming class. When the farm decays the nation deteriorates. Our farms are the very life and heart of our country. Some, though, may ask how we are to educate more farmers. ' Very simple. Make every free I school In the land primarily an agricultural ag-ricultural school, and a literary school as a secondary matter. , Belles letters la not the crowning necessity of existence. Bread and meat are. Rducate the youth of the land first toward that which Is most vitally necessary to our national life, and when thla Is accomplished, If there be leisure and means for adding the trills, ret them tie added. Nine out of every ten high school pupils on emerging from that school enter the ranks of the tollers, in soma department or other. If in their education the farm has not only been made attractive to them, but they nave nean given a morougn ana practical prac-tical knowledge of its workings, then a large per cent of them will as a matter of course choose that as their occupation In life. Whn war broke out between the allies and ,' the central powers the world stood amaied at the wonderful perfection of the German military machine. But the cause behind it :was as simple as A, B, C. Every , German youth had been educated and trained as a soldier FIRST OF ALL after that for a vocation. But in time war will cease The arts of peace will again demand the attention and energies of the world, and among tlipm there Is none to compare with the great art of coaxing coax-ing from Mother Karth her golden harvests. Hut. you may auk, If all of the boys are educated to a farmer's, life, what of the profensloriH? There will always be some who. by natural fitneas, will gravitate to the professions, enuoh to keep their ranks recruited. As a matter of fact, these same professions could spare half of their present members and not suffer In the least. Educate fers! The farms are suffering for them, and the professions profes-sions and trades are overburdened with them. |