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only a small entrance fee is required; few books will be 

 needed. 



Other states are doing likewise; all will need many 

 teachers and experimenters. At present all who know any- 

 thing about intensive agriculture are snapped up by the 

 numerous government experiment stations at good salaries. 

 The land like that of the Rockefellers, the Paynes, the 

 Cuttings, on which farming is carried on by unnecessarily 

 expensive methods, needs the services of trained agriculturists 

 and professional foresters. The Division of Forestry at 

 the start employed eleven persons, but now it has in the field 

 as many hundreds of employees, including a lot of trained 

 foresters. 



The railroads also see the profit in teaching farming, and 

 are devoting more and more money to experiments and lec- 

 tures to show the farmers that they can get more and better 

 crops with the same effort by intelligent selection of seeds. 



The Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railway Company 

 ran its first Seed and Soil Special over the entire system in 

 the winter of 1904-1905, and has lectured to hundreds of 

 thousands of farmers since. 



They report to us that " there is no doubt that the lectures 

 did a great deal of good, and necessarily the larger increase 

 of crops which followed is due to the scientific methods of 

 farming expounded by the various professors." The late 

 President James J. Hill wrote much about the small farms' 

 large yields. 



The hundreds of thousands of "war gardens" unskillfully 

 conducted and glutting the local markets with crops all 

 matured at about the same local time will unreasonably 

 disgust many with intensive cultivation, especially those who 

 work but do not think. The remedy is more instruction. 



