Arizona republican., 1906-03-13

city charges more for what it gives. even when intrinsic value is consider ed, ounce by ounce and pound by pound. Many of the things which city people think they want, they neither want nor need. Our comforts depend largely upon the difference between what we earn and what we need to spend.
 There are unhealthy farms, but there is little reason why they should be so. There are framers who live in lily ventilated rooms. and who feed upon indigestible food, and are less healthy than the city dwellers; but the major ity of farmers are better off physic- ally and mentally than are the men of our great cities, and they have double the opportunity of living healthful and cOntented lives.
 The farmer may receive the mini mum amount of income, but he also has the minimum amount of worry and expense. What the world needs today is more, and not less, farms, and more intelligent and scientific farming, and more business farmers.
 There are altogether too few agricul- tural schools and colleges. The states can do no nobler or higher work for civilization than to establish schools where real farming (not drUdgery) as a business is taught If there is any excuse for government subsidies, that excuse should be applied to substituting the farming school which will make not only farmers, but business farm CTS. We are not spending too much money today for general Knowledge, nor are we over taxing our substance for the diffusion of classical education. It is difficult to be extravagant in edu- cation; but, notwithstanding our great liberality in educational matters, we are woefully deficient in the number of our agricultural schools.
 Better farms would make better peo- pie, not only better farming people. not only better country people, but better city people. In the days of the civili- Zation to come, city centrallzation will have stopped, and equitable distribu- tiOn will be one of the orders of the day. There will be no more crowding into cities, no more massing of people into the smallest possible space, where they only have opportunity to spawn and none to grow. The tendency will not be from outdoors to indoors, but will be the migration of both mind and body out into the great and glorious open air, and Gods country will be- come the arena of our greatest con tests.
 I wish the country school, yes, even the city school would instruct the boy in the elements of agriculture, theo- reticaIly, if necessary. but in some way instiH into his mind the truth about planting and its resulting harvest. We are teaching almost everything in our public schools, both in the city and in the country, save the one fundamental science of all, the science on which de- bends our health and wealth-that of agriculture. The schools teach bot any but botany is not agriculture in more than a special sense. The so- called school garden is too frequently seen to make an impression.
 The great fundamental principles of agriculture should be a part of the cur riculum of every school beyond the lower grades. that the city boy and country boy alike may know of coun- try life and Of what it offers.
 The farm may offer the farmers boy more health, more real cOntentment, more solid comfort. and more money, iff-tae aggregate- than does any DUST ness Or profession which the great city is likely to allow the farmers boy to enjoy.
 If the farmer is ignorant he has no business to be ignorant. He has the time. if he will take the time, to be an educated and progressive citizen. Practically every successful farmer is better read. and knows more of the world at large, than does the business man of the great city. The farmer has the opportunity to broaden him self. physically and mentally. If he does not broaden himself. it is not the fault of the farm, except occasionally, but his own fault. Although he labors steadily, he has more command of time than has the resident of the city. ! He is more master of himself. He is I therefore, better able 10 develop the qualities which count than is the over Continued on Page 10.