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have proved unsatisfying, inadequate, and often untrustworthy as 

 guides to progress. The data of science are obviously more reliable 

 than the data of experience, but they too must be constantly re- 

 examined in the light of new knowledge and must be correlated with 

 one another to provide the foundation for further advance. 



Agricultural science is manifesting an organic growth by the or- 

 derly and symmetrical assimilation of tested knowledge. Extension 

 teaching will remain vital and responsive to the ever varying needs of 

 practical farming so long as the extension workers are in living touch 

 with the station investigations. 



