. The teaching of agriculture in the high school. Ji i ^ [ ^& Organization of the Course iii the application of mathematics to the farmactivities. There must be a degree of accu-racy in measurements — even in farming. Ifeverything we require could be had for theasking, there would be no need for the care-ful measuring of quantity. But at no stagein the history of the human family do wefind such to be the case. The necessities oflife are all limited and can only be had throughactivity. This calls for energy, and sinceour energy is limited, measuring is required,if we would not dissipate it. 4.
. The teaching of agriculture in the high school. Ji i ^ [ ^& Organization of the Course iii the application of mathematics to the farmactivities. There must be a degree of accu-racy in measurements — even in farming. Ifeverything we require could be had for theasking, there would be no need for the care-ful measuring of quantity. But at no stagein the history of the human family do wefind such to be the case. The necessities oflife are all limited and can only be had throughactivity. This calls for energy, and sinceour energy is limited, measuring is required,if we would not dissipate it. 4. Soil Studies Mans attention was directed to the con-sideration of the soil when it began to failin productiveness. When, after long periodsof cultivation, large areas of land becamevisibly less fertile, and plants were raisedwith much greater difficulty upon these areasthan upon new ones, man began to recognizethat a vital relation exists between the soiland the vegetable life which grows in it. Itmust have been early noticed that manure,a
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