46 Agriculture and Its Needs 



it has to respond to the demand of a real 

 constituency with large interests, nor until 

 the purposes of representatives of that con- 

 stituency who have the intelligence and the 

 authority to undertake to accomplish par- 

 ticular things have to be met. 



All of the natural sciences, physics, 

 chemistry, zoology, physiology, bacte- 

 riology, embryology, thermatology ; the 

 social and political sciences, history, eco- 

 nomics, the mechanical arts, and divers 

 phases of engineering; great practical ex- 

 perience, and a large amount of horse sense, 

 are inseparably involved in that high agri- 

 cultural development which must be had in 

 the State of New York if her agriculture 

 is to keep pace with the other commercial 

 and intellectual activities of the State. Of 

 course, not all the people engaged in farming 

 can be equipped with all of this knowledge, 

 but a considerable part of them must be to 



