The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-01

r physical culture, Horticulture, dress
making. bacteriology, dairying, crop
production, botany, horticulture and
various agricultural subjects.
Farmers Institutes are conducted
throughout the state by the professors
from the college. These are supported
in every community by the progressive
farmers and their wives, many Of the
leaders having been trained at the COL
lege.
Many of the Kansas farmers are from
the best class Of New England, SO are
an intelligent and thrifty class of peo-
pie. These, of course. receive the most
benefit from these institutes and from
contact with the men and women VINO
are trained in college.
However. the iIliterate foreigners
who have settled on the farms are
gaining much good from the lectures
and demonstrations given at these in
stitutes and from the farmers who
have been trained in college These
college trained farmers and their wives
are a great ieaven in every comInu-
nifty and are leading their foreign
nefghbors to send their children 10 col
Iege and to improve their homes and
raise their standard of living
What are the results Of this train
ing upon the homes and the agricul-
tural interests Of the state Of Kansas :
First-It has made more efficient and
prosperous farmers, hence has IN
creased the value of land and Of crops
many times over.
Second-It has developed a love for
country life not known 10 uneducated
farmers.
Third-It has added to the beauty
and comfort Of farmers homes, as
many Of the farmers wives have the
training that makes them helpful COM
rades for their husbands and children,
as well as good housekeepers.
Fourth-It has improved the eonlmu-
nifty life. for the love for books, music
and art gained at college has interest
ed them in libraries and lectures. and
in better music and pictures, while
enough of the social graces have been
acquired to enable them TO meet people
easily and freely.
Fifth-It has interested them in civic
affairs, for all have had some training
in sociology and political economy
The farmers of Kansas are alive to
social questions and political interests
Of their state and the Nation. Nothing
could illustrate this better than the
recent fight with the Standard Oil mo-
nopoly 1t was the intelligent interest
of the farmers of Kansas that made
that fight possible and successful
sixth-It has greatly improved this
rural schools. both in raising the
standard for the teachers. in better
buildings, more attractive school
grounds. and better equipment and
furnishings for the schooIhouse.
SEVENTH has resulted in happier
homes, in healthier families, stronger,
better nourisned and better-trained
children; because the farmers wives
have more TO make their lives inter-
esting and are better poised and are
more intelligent. And yet this is not
all. for the Kansas College Of Agri-
culture. for one, has further made
good, it may be stated, in that fifty
important positions in our National
Department Of Agriculture are held by
its graduates. and as many more are
teachers Of agriculture in State coll
leges, and many more are numbered
among the States honored citizens
professional men and women, Tner-
chants. and advanced practical agri-
cuIturists.