Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-12-08

terial prosperity but upon high NOR
al, mental, and physical develop
ment This education of the farmer
-self-education by preference, but
also education from the outside, as
with all other men-is peculiarly
necessary here in the United States,
where the frontier conditions even
in the newest States have now near
ly vanished, where there must be a
substitution of a more intensive sys-
TEN OF cultivation for the old waste
full farm management, and where
there must be a better organization
among the farmers themselves.
Several factors must cooperate in
the Improvement Of the farmers
condition. He must have the chance
to be educated in the widest possible
sense-in the sense which keeps
ever in view the intimate relation
ship between the theory of educa-
ton and the facts of life. In all
education we should widen our
aims. 1t is a good thing to produce
a certain number of trained scholars
and students; but the education SUI
perintended by the State must seek
rather to produce a hundred good
citizens than merely one scholar,
and it must be turned now and then
from the class book to the study of
the great book of nature itself. This
is especially true of the farmer, as
has been pointed out again and
again by all observers most compe-
tent to pass practical Judgment on
the problems Of our country life.
All students now realize that educa-
ton must seek to train the execu-
tive powers of young people and to
confer more real significance upon
the phrase dignity of labor" and
to prepare the pupils so that in adj
dition to each developing in the
highest degree his individual capac-
ity for work, they may together help
create a right public opinion, and
show in many ways social and CO.
operative spirit. Organization has
become necessary in the business
world; and it has accomplished
much for good in the world of labor,
1t is no less necessary for farmers.
Such a movement as the grange
movement is good in itself and is
capable of a well-nigh infinite fur
ther extension for good so long as
it is kept to it's own legitimate bust
ness. The benefits to be derived by
the association of farmers for mu-
tual advantage are partly economic
and partly sociological.
Moreover, while in the long rur
voluntary effort will prove more eff.
fcacious than government assist
ance, while the farmers must pri
marily do most for themselves, ye'
the Government can also do much
The Department of Agriculture hai
broken new ground in many direc
lions, and year by year it finds how
it can improve its methods and de
velop fresh usefulness. Its constan
effort is to give the governmental
assistance in the most effective way
shat is. through associations o
farmers rather than to or through
individual farmers. 1t is also striy
ing o coordinate its work with tn
agricultural departments. to eoordi
nate it with the work of other edu
cational authorities. Agriculture
education is necessarily based upol
general education, but our agricul
tural educational institutions ar
wisely specializing themselves, max
ing their courses relate to the actua
teaching Of the agricultural and kin
bred sciences to young country pee
pie Of young city people who wis
to live in the country.
Great progress has already bee
made among farmers by the creatio
of farmers institutions, of dairy as
sociations of breeders association
horticultural associations, and tn
like, A striking example of HOY
the Government and the farmers ca
cooperate is shown in connectio
with the menace offered to the cot
ton growers of the Southern State
by the advance of the boil weevi
The Department is doing all it ca
to organize the farmers in tn
threatened districts, Just as it ha
been doing all it a to organic
them in aid of its work to eradicat
the cattle fever tick in the Soutl
: The Department can and viii cool
f crate with all such associations, an
il must have their help If its ow
> work is to be done in the most e
: ficient style.
Irrigation and Forest Preservation
Y Much is now heinp done for III