158 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The foregoing is a brief account of what the Department has been 

 doing (luring tlie past year to help farmers through research and 

 demonstration. We have been diligent to contribute toward heavier 

 crops, owing to high prices for the necessities of life, and we feel 

 justified in thinking that our efforts and those of the scientists of 

 the States are telling in the grand totals set forth. The day's work 

 on .the farm is accomplishing more, and the acre is yielding more. 

 During the past year much attention has been given to demonstra- 

 tion in the field of what is known to advanced students, that men of 

 limited means and circumscribed conditions might learn by object 

 lesson better methods and thereby increase their incomes and also 

 contribute to the magnitude of our crops. 



Science that is not applied is dead. 



The details of the operations of the Department will be found in 

 the reports of the heads of the various Bureaus, Divisions, and 

 Offices. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Washington, D. C, 



November 2S, 1910. 



James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



