FARM EDUCATION.
The education .which the farmer needs find which is essential po his success in business and happiness is quite within liis reach. Education does not consist of abstract knowledge, gained by the study .of books. Books are useful ip pointing put the way to knowledge, merely. To J>e able to observe and to draw right conplusions Is the ed.ucat.ion. There are plenty of books and papers suited to this purpose jvithin the reach of every farmer, and plenty of tipie to read them. It is pot th.e busiest farmers who often com}>lain of want of time to read, hat the pziest,' One book of standard authority pn any subject, well studied, is better than p dozen books half studied. The moral influence of rejection and observation, When in the right direction, is verv great, (fhe farmer has around him the cereal plants, grasses, flowers, trees, rocks, soils, minerals and animals. Bis opportunities £or observation are very gpeat, an< f there }8 every inceptive to gain knowledge. The pultivation of the min/i leads (Jirectly fro fi proper and profitable cultivation of fjig ppil.—Ooiman’s Rural World.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 459, 2 April 1890, Page 8
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186FARM EDUCATION. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 459, 2 April 1890, Page 8
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