Practical Agriculture: A Brief Treatise on Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Stock Feeding, Animal Husbandry, and Road Building (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Practical Agriculture: A Brief Treatise on Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Stock Feeding, Animal Husbandry, and Road BuildingAlthough the advanced work in agricultural education has long been provided for in both Europe and America by Colleges and Chairs in some of the Universities, it is only of recent years that the public has awakened to the pressing need of practical agricultural instruction in our public schools.The demand for this work is growing stronger and stronger all the time, and wherever the subject of agriculture has been taught in the public schools the results have been highly satisfactory. President Roosevelt, through the National Commission on Country Life, aroused a great deal of interest in country life and country social conditions which is finding expression in many ways. Our whole nation is beginning to realize the need of better rural schools and more practical instruction.The Committee on Industrial Education for the Country Communities appointed by the National Educational Association in 1905 struck the keynote when it said: "The country schools, which train nearly one half of the school population of this country so far as school training goes, should definitely recognize the fact that the major portion of those being trained will continue to live upon the farm; and that there should be specific, definite technical training fitting them for the activities of farm life. Such schools will not make farmers nor housekeepers, but they will interest the boys and girls in farming and housekeeping and the problems connected with these two important vocations."Likewise it is no less important that pupils in our city schools should receive some instruction in agriculture so that they may have a proper conception of the country and the opportunities they might enjoy there which would be denied them in the city.The tendency of our ambitious young people to collect in the cities and large centers of population is fraught with the gravest danger.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.