THE RESPONSIBILITY OF STATE GOVERNMENT 

 AND or PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS 



A MODERN government not only ad- 

 j\ ministers and executes, but it devel- 

 ops the business and the welfare of society. 

 There is an educational side to government 

 that we will recognize more clearly as time 

 goes on. Public institutions bear a respon- 

 sibility to the community aside from exe- 

 . cuting their own plans or performing their 

 legal functions. I will first illustrate this 

 by speaking of the idle farms belonging to 

 the public or semi-public institutions. Now 

 that we are beginning to recognize the 

 very great importance of "demonstration 

 farms ' ' as means of teaching the best agri- 

 cultural practice, the state or institutional 

 farms assume a new significance. 



1. PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION FARMS 



The United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, experiment stations, and agri- 

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