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Hut the very breadth and diversity of the interests concerned sug- 

 gests that the Department can not be sufficient unto itself , and the 

 Secretary is not unmindful of the other agencies which have contrib 



iitcd in such an important degree to this great work. lit- makes 

 appreciative acknowledgment of the services of the agricultural 

 experiment stations as cooperative agencies, and of their importance 

 from both a local and a national standpoint. 



The Secretary outlines as the twofold object of the Department that 

 of adding to the sum of intelligence of the man, and increasing the pro 

 ductive capacity of the aero, and he adds that " in this Important work 

 it has the hearty cooperation of the State agricultural colleges and 

 experiment stations, all of them working with the Department of 

 Agriculture toward the same great end." By means of the close rela- 

 tions which have existed "the range and effectiveness of many agri 

 cultural investigations have been enlarged, and it has been possible to 

 bring the Department's work into vital touch with agricultural indus- 

 tries and agricultural people. . . . Not onl} r have the station- been 

 a vital factor in making the Department's work more effective, but 

 they lane by their own investigations lifted American agriculture to 

 a higher plane." 



Furthermore, the Department and the experiment station- are 

 "gathering the materials which will constitute the future of education 

 in agriculture, and the permanent impression which their work will 

 make on agricultural practice will be largely determined by their suc- 

 cess in incorporating the results which they obtain in courses of 

 instruction to be given the youth in agricultural colleges and schools." 

 These are, after all, the most important considerations, for th<\ are 

 the most abiding and will have the greatest permanent influence in 

 elevating and improving American agriculture in the broadest sense. 



Secretary Wilson declares his purpose to render all the assistance to 

 the stations which the Department can give them, hut he recognizes 

 that something more is required for further development along their 

 own particular lines of endeavor. He accordingly indorses their 

 appeal to Congress for increased appropriation in the following lan- 

 guage: " In the increasing demand for more light on agricultural prac- 

 tices and the growing interest in rural life generally, the stations must 

 have the mean- for meeting these demands. It is hoped that Congress 

 will recognize this need, as it is already being recognized by sonic of 

 the States themselves. There is no direction in which public money- 

 can be appropriated that will bring more certain and lasting returns 

 than in helping the State experiment stations to do more research 

 work." 



For more than a hundred years, Texas U^vov, referred to under 

 different names, has been one of the most serious scourges of the 



