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It is certainly wortli notiug that while the usefulness of farm experi. 

 meuts as lessons and means for enabling fanners to ap])ly abstract 

 principles to their practice and for bringing the stations into close contact 

 and sympathy with the agricultural public is becoming better and bet- 

 ter appreciated, the experimental farm and especially the "model 

 farm " as an adjunct of the station has rarely, if ever, proved success- 

 ful in the long run. 



It was a wise i)rovision of Congress that the stations should be con- 

 nected with the colleges. The effort to separate the two will be to the 

 disaster of both. 



