They have said in effect: We will help the farmer to grow better crops, but we will take no thought of how he can get the best returns for the crops he grows, or of how he can utilize those returns so as to make them yield him the best and happiest life.
It is not wise to stop the education of a boy or a girl with the body, and to neglect the mind and the spirit.

But we have done the equivalent of that in dealing with farm life.

Along the line of better crops we have done more for the farmer, and have done it more effectively, than any other Nation.

Hut we have done little, and far less than many other Nations, for better business and better living on the farm.

Hereafter we shall need in State and Nation not only the work of Departments of Agriculture such as we have now, but we shall need to have added to their functions such duties as will make them departments of rural business and rural life as well.