12 Agriculture and Its Needs 



ations and new demands out of which we 

 might have made our losses more than 

 good. We have started towards doing it, 

 but we have not done it. It is not enough 

 to give thanks that we are not worse off 

 than we are. We must lay hold of the 

 forces that will make us better off than we 

 are and perhaps better off than we 

 ever were. Those forces lie in scientific 

 knowledge and in combined action, not 

 combined action which merely complains 

 and tries to make other people pay for our 

 losses, but combined action which will do 

 things that we can not either of us do alone, 

 and which will make it easier for the man 

 who has juice and generosity and force in 

 him to prosper above other men, and which, 

 on the whole, will enable New York agri- 

 culture to come to its own again. Admit- 

 tedly, there are some conditions that are 

 against it, but there are more new condi- 



