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Rh was limited and high-priced, compared with to-day. A movement which began about the time of the war, coincident with the growing demand for technical education, has somewhat changed the nature of farming in this country, and has made it an important business rather than an occupation. Population has grown rapidly, and the demands of the people for food have become great. More and more the attention of intelligent men, in the farming ranks and without, has been directed toward the future and the question of providing the necessities of life to a population fast approaching the one-hundred-million mark.

A rapidly growing country needed men skilled in the sciences and arts of life to deal with its new conditions, and while purely commercial activities were the first to feel this need, farming also began to feel it, and the movement which introduced technical education and in a degree supplanted the old classical schools with those designed to develop the kind of men the country needed gave to Rh