1919] EDITORIAL. 109 



out the substantial body of agricultural Imowleclge acquired by the 

 slow but fundamental labors of the experiment stations, the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, and other research agencies ; the develop- 

 ment of strong faculties and sound pedagogic methods in the colleges 

 of agriculture and associated institutions of learning ; and the train- 

 ing and experience of a vast corps of extension workers, county 

 agents, and others in man-to-man instruction of a type readily adapt- 

 able to the emergency conditions, the accomplishments in agricul- 

 tural education overseas would necessarily have been seriously re- 

 tarded and restricted. As in our food production campaign, it was 

 primarily because these institutions had been developed and strength- 

 ened year after year that agricultural education was ready when 

 the call came, and was able to play so worthy a part in this great 

 enterprise. 



