Agriculture and Its Needs 49 



of the commercial interests of the people. 

 After all that has been done in many other 

 directions, agriculture need not hesitate: 

 and others need not sneer, when agricul- 

 ture ventures and asks. 



For example, we ought to have a com- 

 petent and complete agricultural survey 

 made of all the farming lands of this 

 State. The farmers ought to be told 

 rather closely of the general attributes 

 of the soil of the different counties and 

 of its chemical elements as well. They 

 should be told, in a general way but 

 with some particularity and definiteness, 

 how it may be used to the best advan- 

 tage. One may say that they do know- 

 Certainly they know much about it, but if 

 the subject were to be intensively inquired 

 into they would themselves be surprised at 

 the number of things which have not yet 

 occurred to them. Quite as certainly there 



