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While I believe that a satisfactory program for agricultural de- 

 velopment demands increased funds and more people to be devoted 

 to the discovery of unknown scientific truths, I believe just as fully 

 that the most efficient extension service in the near future will be that 

 which provides for a more systematic study of farm practises than has 

 been undertaken in the past, in order to find those which are worth 

 disseminating. There should be strong currents of information com- 

 ing in from the farms through a branch of the Extension Service, to 

 our institutions of learning, where they may be summarized and vital- 

 ized and sent out again through the Extension Service to thousands 

 of other farmers throughout the state. 



In conclusion, let us picture in our minds a plan of extension 

 service based on the developing conditions as here stated. The State 

 Extension Service will continue to reach out over the state, through 

 the county farm advisers, who will in the future more than in the 

 past be county directors of agriculture, working for the interests of 

 agriculture through the Extension Service of the University and 

 through the Farm Bureau. The Farm Bureau will confine its ac- 

 tivities to educational, promotional, and representative work. As 

 county director of agriculture, the farm adviser will devote his time 

 more fully to the development and organization of local leaders and 

 to bringing to his people the services of specialists along all lines. 



The State Extension Service will provide more and more spec- 

 ialists along all lines affecting farm work and farm life, and will de- 

 vote considerable necessary attention to maintaining the organization 

 necessary to successfully carry the work of the specialists out through 

 the counties and communities to the individual farm families. 



The county Farm Bureau and the county farm adviser will also 

 be the means and the agents through which the Extension Service will 

 operate to find and to draw in many new ideas and practises from the 

 farms, and send them out to thousands of other people who are ready 

 to receive and apply them. 



