THE FARM AND THE CHURCH.
MINISTERS STUDYING AGEICULtuki:. Tho College of Agriculture of (ho State University of Kentucky , has added .1 department uni(|iic iii American schools of agriculture. This is a class for ministers who are in active charge of churches in rural districts and who are to he taught the rudiments of fanning. These ministers frequently find it of value to know even Hie most elementary principles of agriculture. Therefore, being advised of this, the board of trustees of the lientue-ky Slate University, many of them fanners themselves, made provision through the Department of extension, for the establishment of this course at the beginning of summer school. The attendance at the first classes was fifteen or twenty ministers of all ages from all parts of the State. Theso ministers are taken in charge by experts in the various brandies in the College of Agriculture, who deliver lectures and give practical demonstrations of agricultural work of all sorts, ami the knowledge is to be spread among their parishioners by these ministers from the farming communities.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1572, 16 October 1912, Page 10
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175THE FARM AND THE CHURCH. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1572, 16 October 1912, Page 10
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