THE NEW EARTH 



cemented together with shrewd common sense 

 and no small degree of diplomacy. These men, 

 called agricultural explorers, are now distrib- 

 uted practically over the entire globe. As 

 rapidly as others can be trained the globe is 

 divided into smaller regions, in order that more 

 work may be done. Five hundred men are 

 already, in 1906, under service in this bureau, 

 and it is only a few years old. Sixty per cent 

 of these men are engaged in scientific investi- 

 gation and its application to the farm, orchard 

 and garden. 



While the scientific side of the work is con- 

 ducted with earnestness, the practical side is 

 by no means overlooked, but rather empha- 

 sized. For example, the bureau has undertaken 

 the direction of farms in certain regions, par- 

 ticularly, at present, in the South, where prob- 

 lems which baffle the farmers of the locality 

 are worked out before them, and the reasons 

 for doing the problems in such and such ways 

 are clearly demonstrated day by day. Thirty- 

 two of these farms are now under the super- 

 vision of the bureau, located in Louisana, 

 Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South 

 Carolina and Florida. Representatives of the 



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