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their applications. He cannot be blind to their 

 dominance. They insist on recognition. They 

 are jealous masters and good servants. Nature 

 serves only the man who obeys her. To obey he 

 must know. The truth shall make him free. 

 How to secure larger crops of better products 

 at less cost and still maintain soil fertility, is 

 the first demand of modern agriculture, and 

 its solution depends in large measure upon 

 education. 



But education does not stop here. The 

 farmer is also a seller as well as a producer. 

 He is a business man. He is manager of an 

 industry. He is an investor of capital. So the 

 question will arise, Can he get any help from 

 education in the handling of the business phases 

 of his farm? He certainly can. You cannot 

 teach a man business in the sense of supplying 

 him with good sense, business judgment, ability 

 to handle men, and so on. But you can study 

 the general conditions that govern the business 

 of agriculture, and you can report the results of 

 your researches to the practical farmer; and he, 

 if he is willing, may learn much that will be 

 helpful to him in deciding the many difficult 

 questions that confront him as a business man. 

 Farm administration in its largest sense will, 



