THE EXPERIMENT STATIONS 



work in charge if they should seek their own 

 ends. If the men who carry on this work of 

 the stations should devote themselves to the 

 mere acquiring of wealth, they would make 

 more money in a year than they can make in 

 a lifetime on the slender salary given them; 

 for out of their discoveries grow, sometimes, 

 vast sums of money saved to the state in- 

 directly, large amounts brought to the people 

 directly. So, unselfishness is the keynote. Like 

 all unselfish work, it is successful in the high- 

 est sense. 



These stations are, in the broadest sense, 

 educational. They lead, stimulate, restrain, 

 advise, control. They are pedagogic, without 

 being paternal; influential, without being co- 

 ercive; commanding, but never dictatorial. 

 They have become, in some ways, the most 

 powerful agent in their influence upon the 

 functions and the developing of the New 

 Earth. 



There are sixty stations, one in each state 

 and territory, and in several states two, one in 

 Alaska, one in Hawaii. They are organized 

 under what is known as the Hatch Bill, a 

 measure which became a law in 1887. Work 



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