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  ness 
  institutions, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  increasing 
  the 
  supply 
  of 
  food 
  and 
  of 
  raw 
  

   materials. 
  Nature 
  has 
  furnished 
  lavishly 
  the 
  raw 
  materials 
  with 
  

   which 
  to 
  work. 
  Scientific 
  research 
  and 
  engineering 
  skill 
  have 
  still 
  

   a 
  large 
  field 
  of 
  endeavor 
  in 
  utilizing 
  these; 
  but, 
  more 
  than 
  all 
  that, 
  

   the 
  human 
  problems, 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  selection 
  of 
  settlers, 
  ways 
  of 
  culti- 
  

   vation 
  of 
  the 
  soil, 
  the 
  maintenance 
  and 
  increase 
  of 
  its 
  fertility, 
  the 
  

   proper 
  selection 
  and 
  rotation 
  of 
  crops, 
  marketing, 
  cooperative 
  buying 
  

   and 
  selling, 
  and 
  particularly 
  the 
  social 
  relations, 
  should 
  be 
  the 
  sub- 
  

   ject 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  kind 
  of 
  scientific 
  research 
  and 
  of 
  practical 
  applica- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  results 
  as 
  has 
  been 
  found 
  essential 
  in 
  handling 
  the 
  engineering 
  

   or 
  material 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  problem. 
  

  

  Inspiration 
  to 
  greater 
  work 
  in 
  all 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  world 
  comes 
  from 
  

   the 
  realization 
  that 
  the 
  dreams 
  of 
  the 
  founders 
  of 
  the 
  national 
  recla- 
  

   mation 
  movement 
  have 
  come 
  true 
  ; 
  that 
  permanent 
  communities 
  have 
  

   been 
  established 
  in 
  places 
  which 
  20 
  years 
  ago 
  were 
  waste 
  and 
  deso- 
  

   late 
  ; 
  that 
  a 
  high 
  type 
  of 
  civilization 
  has 
  been 
  extended. 
  The 
  imagi- 
  

   nation 
  is 
  stimulated 
  to 
  the 
  point 
  of 
  attempting 
  still 
  greater 
  achieve- 
  

   ments 
  in 
  the 
  realization 
  of 
  those 
  things 
  which 
  make 
  for 
  the 
  increase 
  

   of 
  human 
  knowledge 
  and 
  permanent 
  prosperity. 
  

  

  