FIFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART IV. 309 



perimenting with corn and wheat, trying to increase the varieties and 

 establish a variety that will make a larger yield, and what is true of corn is 

 true of many other things grown in this section. 



So the knowledge of agriculture is extending far and near. Then again, 

 when we find there is some disease that is attacking some one of our products, 

 we have the whole world to draw upon to find something that will meet that 

 disease and check it. We have sent our scientists as far as China for some- 

 thing of that sort. 



So we have come today not in relationship with dairy conditions, with 

 agricultural conditions in Iowa alone, not alone into relationship with con- 

 ditions of this middle West, but we are coming more and more into world 

 relationship, so that whatever may be our specific interest, whatever may be 

 our own particular line of work, we are not separated from the world; and 

 if we are efficient in our own line of work, if we are methodical, if we have 

 » scientific mastery or the same, s6 much more is there a scientific mastery of 

 the work of the world and we have our relationship with that work: 



Then there is this thought today, we can not stand idly by and allow the 

 events of the world to pass unnoticed; th^re is more in our life than that in 

 which we have a direct interest. Take the great problems of statecraft. In 

 fact the progress of our land has been so great, the development of our 

 natural resources has been so rapid, the development of science has been 

 such that some of our laws and statecraft have not kept up with it. While 

 we are considering this wonderful development, let us see if there is direct 

 relationship between educational facilities and these factors of wealth. 



I have sometimes wondered why we have so many educational institutions; 

 have asked whether the college man had anything to do with the practical 

 side of life. If I were going to name some industry that was a practical 

 industry, I think I would be safe in naming dairying as one. We find in a 

 practical industry there is something that has tangible results, and you are 

 looking upon it as tangible. With your interpretation of that word, and my 

 interpretation of that word, we find that back of the wonderful progress we 

 h-ive had, we go back to find that some man working alone in his labora- 

 tory, working at something that appeared to be an abstract proposition, had 

 n ) relationship, so far as we could see, to everyday life of the farm, was really 

 the man getting at the secret, getting at the results in the ways at last which 

 we have taken and applied to our problems of the farm. 



So we can not go forward in any industry, starting from the practical 

 side of it, but we go back and find men who have been working along in 

 that line, have been contributing something to the ultimate result. And so 

 I want to bring this one thought to you— let us respect the calling of each 

 other. Let us respect the work and the calling of the other man, whatever 

 it may be; let us come to a realization that some way we will find where your 

 work and my work meets, and we are mutually dependent one on another. 

 Let us respect the nations of the earth. There are great movements taking 

 place among nations. They are undoubtedly the action and reaction 

 between Germany and Russia, between Japan and China; and we are 

 coming to understand that other nations will awaken to these scientific 

 things, and they are going to apply science to their problems. 



Someone has said that our agricultural department at Washington is try- 

 ing, as far as possible, to introduce foreign plants in our land and enable us 



