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In many schools for the blind there are pupils who certainly show before they have had many years of instruction that they have not the talent to pursue a rigorous musical or professional training which will enable them to compete with well-equipped seeing competitors. Would it not be well, earlier than is now the practice, to turn the attention of such pupils to some trade or business? Too many, perhaps, will follow the line of least resistance and drift into some collective industry maintained for the blind. But if these students are taken when they are young enough to adapt themselves to new conditions, might not more be found capable of filling positions side by side with their seeing brothers, and might not some of those who have aptitude for neither the professions nor the trades receive with profit agricultural training which would enable them to become helpers on a farm? I am aware that there are limitations to such work, but the fact that there are blind men successfully conducting farms in different parts of the country would seem to show that such work is not impossible. Several men are raising poultry with success. In such instances there is usually the cooperation of one of the seeing members of the family, either parents or children. Much of the work can be done with little or no sight, and the assistance required can be rendered in a few minutes each day on the parts of the work where vision is needed.

In seeking for employment for the blind, whether in workshops for the sightless, in factories for the seeing, or at home, it is an individual problem.