CHAPTER VI

THE WAY TO BETTER FARMING AND BETTER LIVING

The retarded application of science to agriculture and neglect of agricultural education--Present progress in agricultural education--Full benefit of education must await cooperative organisation--Connection between cooperation and social progress--Mr. Roosevelt on the cause and cure of rural discontent--Two views upon the principles of rural betterment--The part cooperation is playing in Irish rural society--General observations on town and country pleasures--The social necessity for a redirection of rural education--The rural labour problem--The position of women in farm life--The reason why the remedy for rural backwardness must come from without--The paradox of the problem 117