BETTER TIMES ON THE FARM Ever since I came to have first-hand knowledge of irrigation, I have been impressed with the peculiar advantages which surround the irrigation rancher.

The high productiveness of irrigated land, resulting in smaller farm units and denser settlement, as well as the efficiency and alertness of the irrigator, have combined to give the irrigated regions very high rank among the most progressive farming communities of the world.

Such rural communities as those of the irrigated West are useful examples for the consideration of regions in which life is more isolated, has less of the benefits of cooeperation, and generally has lacked the stimulus found in irrigation farming.
The object of education in general is to produce in the boy or girl, and so in the man or woman, three results: first, a sound, useful, and usable body; second, a flexible, well-equipped, and well-organized mind; alert to gain interest and assistance from contact with nature and cooeperation with other minds; and third, a wise and true and valiant spirit, able to gather to itself the higher things that best make life worth while.

The use and growth of these three things, body, mind, and spirit, must all be found in any effective system of education.
The same three-fold activity is equally necessary in a group of individuals.

Take for example the merchants of a town, who have established a Chamber of Commerce or Board of Trade.