44 Agriculture and Its Needs 



higher education can be of any substantial 

 advantage to farming, it will have to have 

 its head in a democratic and a sympathetic, 

 as well as a real, university. Cornell Uni- 

 versity is a real university. Its ideals and 

 its scholarship have been high. Its offer- 

 ings have extended into wide fields, and its 

 equipment has been measurably sufficient, 

 But its disposition has never been so demo- 

 cratic as its management has desired it to 

 be, or believed that it was, and its sympa- 

 thy with the agricultural industries has 

 never been so consuming as to lead it to 

 rise above the commonplace in things agri- 

 cultural, or to surmount the real obstacles 

 to agricultural investigation and instruc- 

 tion. It is not the fault of a board of 

 trustees, a president, a dean, or a professor. 

 The trouble is beyond either. It will never 

 be cured unless that university becomes the 

 real instrument of the State, nor until there 



