Excerpt from Seventeenth Annual Report of the National Farm School: November, 1914 An institution like The National Farm School, which is today celebrating its seventeenth anniversary, has not had the time to make history. Yet, short as has been the period of our existence, our years have been crowded with troubles and joys. Our joys are beginning now, but, in the years now happily gone, there were trou bles enough, some of them disheartening to the point of deep dis tress. Our undertaking was new. Few realized its value. The prophets of failure were many. And they not merely prophesied disaster, but also made their dire prophesies real by refusing their own aid and encouragement, and by discouraging others from coming to our support. Many a month's end found The National Farm School with empty treasury, yet with debts that had to be met from private purse. There were misrepresentations that could not be explained away, because those who made them stubbornly closed their eyes to all proofs to the contrary. The misrepresentations gained wide currency, and no words of ours, either by pen or mouth, could over take them. 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.