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number aud playing a greater part in the station enterprise abroad. 

 Without doubt tlie voluntary association of numerous farmers with the 

 experiment-station officers in plans for the repression of fraud in com- 

 mercial transactions involving agricultural materials has been produc- 

 tive of great good to all concerned. The stations have thus secured 

 the active support of the landed proprietors and other i^ersons carrying 

 on the more important agricultural enterprises. A considerable number 

 of men having large agricnltural interests have received more or less 

 special training in agricultural science at the agricultural schools and 

 the universities offering agricultural courses. They are thus enabled 

 to appreciate the value of thorough researches at the stations and to 

 give them efiticientaid in i>erfecting legislation contributing to the suc- 

 cess of the stations and in formulating regulations for the conduct of 

 control work and other operations directly aft'ecting the farmers. The 

 voluntary system of control of seeds, fertilizers, and feeding stuffs, 

 while it has certain difticulties which seem to hinder its application on 

 a wide scale, has brought the stations into the most intimate relations 

 with both the farmers purchasing such materials and the dealers sell- 

 ing them. The wise and just leadership which the stations have had 

 in this enter])rise has raised them to a high position in the coutideuce 

 and esteem of practical men. 



