. The business of farming . nst agricultural teaching and training. Butwe have shown that this condition is being fasteliminated from our farms by the rapid inaugura-tion of agricultural teaching and training in ourpublic schools and colleges. When our youngmen and women are taught and trained to agricul-ture, the spell of indifference, resentment to bet-ter farm methods, and pioneer environments willbecome broken and will no longer constitute ahindrance to the business. In the past there has been a steady stream ofboys and girls winding its way from the farm tothe city. But few of the boys an
. The business of farming . nst agricultural teaching and training. Butwe have shown that this condition is being fasteliminated from our farms by the rapid inaugura-tion of agricultural teaching and training in ourpublic schools and colleges. When our youngmen and women are taught and trained to agricul-ture, the spell of indifference, resentment to bet-ter farm methods, and pioneer environments willbecome broken and will no longer constitute ahindrance to the business. In the past there has been a steady stream ofboys and girls winding its way from the farm tothe city. But few of the boys and girls caughtup by this ever flowing stream returned to thefarm. They were the best blood of the they were seeking the better opportunity,a worthy ambition to which every one shouldaspire, but they should have been made to see thevision of the better opportunity on the farm. The great majority of professional, businessand workingmen of our cities were poured intoour cities by this ceaseless stream flowing from 46. o^ I- }J aj> Q, a r- iJ !^ — J= f5^ _ bo 1> 3 •S .£H- u. u) ^- T3 - . ??£ « S S f—f ^ O £ ^T^*^!:; l::Q-0 ^ HINDRANCES 47 our farms. It has resulted in an over supply ofmen for the various businesses, trades, profes-sions, common labor, and the founding of all man-ner of devices and schemes for the eking out ofan existence with all their attending crimes andevils. It has given us the excess of middlemenand thus presented one of the alleged problemsand hindrances to the business of farming. Anample supply of middlemen is a necessity and abenefit to the business of farming; but an oversupply leads to the practice of dishonest tricksof trade, resorted to by so many of the commissionmen whose ranks are so over crowded that someof their number must resort to dishonesty in or-der to live. We hear it said so often that the time hascome in this land of ours when more men mustbe producers and fewer live on the work of thosewho do produce. This is
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