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the different institutions and agencies, defining from time to time 

 the principles that should govern each. The influence of such a board 

 if properly organized might be considerable. It may be comparable 

 with that of the Board of State Governors, recently in session in 

 Washington." 



To some phases of this report Mr. Gifford Pinchot dissented and 

 presented a separate memorandum, a paragraph of which may be 

 quoted in this connection. 



"It is the clear duty of the state agricultural colleges and experi- 

 ment stations on the one hand, and of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture on the other, to lay aside their differences, if they have 

 any, and to work unitedly for the common good of all the people. 

 There is far more work to be done than all available means can pos- 

 sibly accomplish. Agricultural research does not need to wait on 

 opportunity, for opportunity is already here in overwhelming measure. 

 To meet the huge demand in this field requires united effort. To be 

 effective, united effort must be organized. Instead of the uncon- 

 vinced and unconvincing suggestion for an advisory board contained 

 in the report, I desire for my own part to substitute the statement 

 that the fundamental need of agricultural research in the United 

 States is a thoroughgoing cooperation between the state and national 

 agencies, under a definite but not a rigid plan. In my judgment 

 such cooperation can be best reached, and the necessary plan can best 

 be prepared and modified, through the agency of a cooperation board 

 or similar body representing both state and nation, created on the 

 assumption that state and national agencies are simply parts of one 

 great instrument which exists for the general good, and organized 

 to give that view effect. Such a board should be required to make 

 suggestions for the coordination and advancement of agriculture and 

 agricultural research in the states and nation but it should be without, 

 wholly and altogether, direct authority beyond what might be inherent 

 in the value of the methods and work it would suggest. It should 

 give no orders." 



Although these recommendations differ somewhat in detail the essen- 

 tial objects are the same, and evidence the general appreciation of the 

 need of more cooperation in research work. That such cooperation 

 is not so easily arranged at present as it might have been twenty 

 years ago is at once apparent when it is remembered that some of our 

 agricultural experiment stations are almost wholly dependent upon 

 federal appropriations, while in other states the funds received from 

 the national government comprise but a minor part of the total 

 income of the station. Obviously any plan of cooperation must be 

 voluntary, if it is to succeed in a broad way. 



The relations of the state entomologists to the state experiment 

 stations is usually a matter dependent upon local circumstances, but 



