Excerpt from Manual of Agriculture for Secondary Schools: Studies in Soils and Crop Production We are making educational history these days at a rapid rate, and not the least important chapter is on the new status of affairs industrial. At last agriculture is coming into its own, and it will not be many years until this subject will have taken its place in the American secondary school system as it is now taking its place within the colleges and universities. This is not only because agriculture employs the time and absorbs the lives of a third of our people and feeds us all; it is not only because the future and the development of every people is limited by the production of the soil it occupies; it is not only because it is expedient from the community standpoint that this subject should be studied by young people and developed by science; it is largely because, after all, the subject-matter of agriculture, its method and its outlook, are exceptionally valuable in their influence upon the individual, educationally. Elsewhere I have written, It is dangerous to attempt to educate a live boy with no reference to the vocational, and I might add that it is dangerous to the community, as it is unprofitable to the individuals, to fill our schoolhouses day after day with young men and women to study seriously all the problems of life except the one supreme problem of how to make a living, a large and significant portion of which problem from the racial standpoint is comprised within the range of farming and farm life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.