Download or read book Sixteenth Annual Report of the National Farm School written by National Farm School and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sixteenth Annual Report of the National Farm School: November, 1913 No one need begrudge us the glow of pride with which we welcome you on this annual pilgrimage to The National Farm School. The occasion is significant. It bears the palm of victory, a victory that rests in the consciousness that we are to - day witnessing the fulfilment Of a prophecy, dared by us when this Farm School was first projected, nineteen years ago. We feel justified in congratulating ourselves because all that we look upon is eloquent testimony that the visions we followed were not illusions, but a light that showed us the path amid the encircling gloom. We have builded better than we knew. Hence we do not apolo gize for the thrill of pride that throbs within us. We realize that in the fall Of 1894 we foresaw the urgent need of the twentieth cen tury, and began the agitation for The National Farm School, with the result that we are here foregathered under the auspices of this institution, surrounded by the produce Of the fields, and this splen did Showing Of young manhood, the students Of the school, who have dedicated themselves to the cause we have sacredly fostered, from the day of its opening, sixteen years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.