48 Agriculture and Its Needs 



osity of a people have ever been able to put 

 upon its feet. These specifications call for 

 nothing short of a real university under 

 some considerable measure of popular 

 control. 



Things Outside of the Schools 



There are things to be done in the inter- 

 ests of New York agriculture, outside of the 

 schools. There need be no squeamishness 

 about doing them. There need be no hes- 

 itation about asking the State to do them 

 when only the State can do them. It is 

 clearly within the scope of the political 

 power of the people to promote an 

 overwhelming common interest by com- 

 bined action when it can not be done in- 

 dividually. It is unmistakably so when 

 the people acting together actually do so 

 much to enlighten the political and profes- 

 sional life and culture of the State, and 

 when they do so much to support so many 



