The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-24

| highest education From railways tC
| fnclorip nO great indlS rial concern
can nowadays br carried on save by
the aid of u swarm OF men who nave
received n high technical education in
chemistry. H. engineering. IN electrici.
~ and In one UT more ot srtfes OF spe.
cinl subjects
The big business man. Ihe biz rail.
way man. does not ask college trained
experts TO tell him how 10 ruu-his busi.
ness. but he does ask numbers of them
each to give him expert advice and aid
on some one point Indispensable TO his
business. He finds ihis man usually
In some graduate of n technical school
or college In which he has been trained
for his life work
In just the same way the farmers
should benefit 10y the advice of the
technical men who have been trained
In phases of the very work the farmer
does, ! am not now speaking of the
man who has had an ordinary general
training. whether in school or college
While there should undoubtedly be
such n training as foundation tex.
tent differing according to the kind of
work each boy intends to do as a nam.
II Is nevertheless true that our educa
tional system should more and more
he turned in the direction of educating
men toward aud not away from the
farm and the shop.
During the last half century we have
begun TO develop system of agrlcul
tural education nj once practical and
scientific, and we must go on devel.
oping 1t. But after developing It Il
must be used The rich man who
spends a fortune upon n fancy farm
with entire Indifference to cost does
not do much good to farming: but. on
the other hand. just as little Is done by
the working farmer who stolidly re.
fuses to profit by the knowledge of the
day, who treats any effort Mt improve.
ment as absurd on It's face. refuses TO
countenancc what he regards as now
tangled ideas and cOntrivances and
ieers NJ all book farming"
] wish ] could take representatives
Of this type Of farmer down to Long
Island. where | live. TO have them see
what has been done. not as phlaDthro.
py, but ms plain business proposition.
by men connected with the Long Is.
land rallrond. who believe II pays to
encourage the development of farms
along the line of that railway They
have pui practical men in charge OF
experimental farms. cultivating them
intensively and using the best mod
ern methods not only in raising crops,
but In securing the best market for
the crops when raised
The growth has been astounding
and land only hfty miles from New
York which. during our entire national
lifetime has been treated as worth.
less. has within the last three or four
years been proved to possess a really
high value.
Interest to Farm Life.
The farmer. however. must not only
make his land pay. but he must make
country life interesting for himself
and for his wife and his sons and
daughters. Our people as whole
should realize the infinite possibilities
OF life In the country. and every ef.
fort should be made TO make these
possibilities more possible.
From the beginning OF time 1t has
been the man raised in the country
and usually The man born In the conn.
try-wbo has been most apt to rem
der the services which every nation
most needs. Turning 10 the list OF
American statesmen. 1t Is extraordi.
nary TO see how large proportion
started as farm boys. But 1t Is
rather sad TO see that IN recent years
most Of these same boys have ended
their lives M men living In cities.
IL pfleh happens that the good con