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It carries on investigations looking to the selection and 

 breeding of more improved varieties of corn, wheat, and of 

 sugar producing plants. 



Through the Bureau of Farm Management it is actnally 

 entering u pon the farms and into the homes of the people, 

 suggesting systems of management whereby individual farms 

 inay be better managed and yield a better income, and 

 suggesting systems of bookkeeping whereby the farmer may 

 find out what particular system of management and what 

 particular crops pay best and and are the most suited to his 

 soil and the conditions by which he is surrounded, 



Finally, through the Bureau of Plant Industry the 

 Department of Agriculture sends experts to all parts of the 

 world looking for rare and valuable seeds, plants, and trees 

 which it introduces for the purpose of acclimatizing and 

 introducing into the various agricultural sections of the 

 Uuites States. 



These are only a few of the lines of work which the 

 National Goverment is undertaking for the benefit of the 

 nation in general and the farming classes in particular, and 

 will serve to illustrate the fact that there are great activities 

 in agricultural science, and practice, and that every effort is 

 being made to bring science into the farm and the country 

 household. 



The Hon. Chas. R. Davis, of Minnesota, in a speach 

 before the House of Representatives, March 2nd., 1907, said: 

 "Under the movement for industrial education and research 

 started in the sixties, including the Federal Department of 

 Agriculture, the State experiment stations, the State agri- 

 cultural colleges, and the two or three dozen agricultural 

 high schools we now spend, exclusive of inspection and other 

 general work, something like $10.000,000.00. These expen- 

 ditures have added not less than a billion dollars in valué 

 to the producís of our American farms, shops, and other 

 industries and greatly improved the social conditions of our 

 workers and of all our people. It is believed by those well 



