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development of general agriculture. It is unnecessary, though, for 

 me to discuss this point to an audience of Missouri dairymen. 



It was, therefore, considered feasible to conduct a line of work 

 throughout this entire section, supported by all the agricultural 

 colleges, experiment stations and the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, which would carry information to a dozen or so dairy 

 farms in each state, which information when applied under the 

 existing conditions at these several farms would make them entirely 

 successful. These farms would then become object lessons, and 

 would exert a great influence for dairying in the surrounding com- 

 munities. This influence would grow and in time become so great 

 as to enable these local institutions to continue the work independ- 

 ently. When such a condition is obtained the assistance of the 

 Department of Agriculture should cease. It was not the intention 

 that experimental work should be excluded, because there are many 

 dairy problems in that section, as in all sections, that are still un- 

 solved, and whenever assistance could be given in working out these 

 problems it should be done, still the first purpose of the work is 

 to apply the information that is now available. This plan of work 

 was adopted, and was the first new line taken up by the Dairy Di- 

 vision under its present executive. 



Let us now note briefly some of the details of the work, and 

 some of the results that have been produced. The first considera- 

 tion in beginning this work in a state is to determine whether or 

 not some local institution, such as the agricultural college, experi- 

 ment station or State Department of Agriculture, will take an ac- 

 tive part in it. If none are willing to do so, nothing is done in that 

 State. So far, such a case has not occurred, for all of the state 

 institutions are anxious for the work to be done and heartily co- 

 operate in it. The Dairy Division furnishes one man to do field 

 work in each state. The agricultural college, experimental station 

 or State Department of Agriculture, as the case may be, provides 

 an office for this man, and when possible some additional help 

 for the field. The work then is jointly planned by the Dairy 

 Division and the state institution, and the field man is in- 

 structed to execute the plan adopted. All reports of the field man 

 are duplicated; one copy being sent to the office of the Dairy Di- 

 vision and the other to the state institution, and neither publishes 

 the results without the consent of the other. 



It is necessary that the field man become familiar with the 

 conditions prevalent in the state in which he is to work, hence 

 the first thing he does is to make a tour of the state, visiting as 



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