Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 28, 1906

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V The Science of Agriculture How it Should be Taught The Work o University of Maine At the last meeting of aklo Conn ty Pomona Grange the topic for clis mission was should Agriculture la Taught in Our Public School Tin discussion was ably opened by Mrs L F Sukcfortb who said Agriculture without doubt is one ol oldest ot Human occupations Pursuer at first in a crude way by the barba rians of distant antiquity who dug holes 111 the ground with a sharpened stiek into which they diopped the seed it has progressed as man has progress ed in the scale of evolution until i has at last reached that plain where il is styled a science Put the science ol agriculture is young very young II is just beginning to lawn upon human knowledge that it K indeed a science and that it includes a knowledge ol man other sciences socalled I have no doubt but the man ot i it future who engages in agriculture toi liis lifes business wiil follow his occu pation in a scientific manner and will prepare himself by proper study and practice as do people ot other trades and professions 1