6 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



the station work, especially in the advanced work where the highest 

 order of ability is required. Too givat conservatism in the matter of 

 salary will surely prevent the expectations of the Adams Act from 

 being fully realized, by keeping- down the grade of men who enter 

 and continue in this work, and by causing the better ones t(j be drawn 

 away to stations which bid higher. 



More young men should be encouraged to enter experimerit station 

 work and to take advanced courses which will give them a thorough 

 grounding and make them strong and resourceful investigators. A 

 large number of such men are needed in nearly every department of 

 agricultural work to-day. Surely there should l)e encouragement for 

 men with a taste for research to prepare themselves for it along agri- 

 cultural lines. A career is open to them which is attractive from the 

 fullness of the field and the o})portunity for great i)ublic usefulness. 

 The pecuniary rewards are not such as may be reached in commercial 

 lines, although there the higher salaries are actually reached by only 

 the few. But such work is inviting to men with a taste for it, aside 

 from the mere matter of salary, and in no line of research is a more 

 inspiring field ojx'u. The high grade of the service should be fully 

 recognized in both the dignity of the position and the salary. Com- 

 petent recruits are needed noAv more than ever before in the history 

 of our stations. They are essential to the development of their work 

 and to meeting the requirements and expectations of the Adams Act. 



