KESPONSIBILITY OF GOVERNMENT 



We must know exactly what our re- 

 sources are. We are accustomed to geo- 

 logical surveys and to censuses to count 

 the voters and make apportionment of 

 voting districts. We inventory our min- 

 eral resources. But we have no accurate 

 knowledge of the soils in the different 

 localities, of local climate, the wealth of 

 localities in the way of woodlots and small 

 streams, the feasibility of developing small 

 industries in the communities (and the 

 open country needs new industries and new 

 interests), no good studies of local mar- 

 kets or of the kinds of agriculture that it 

 would be best to encourage in any section. 



The central experiment station or col- 

 lege engages in the discovery of principles, 

 but it may not be able to apply them in 

 other parts of the state, because it has no 

 specifications of conditions in these parts. 

 Neither has the farmer himself any ade- 

 quate concept of the conditions, because no 

 one has given him the knowledge and no 

 one has it to give. We are now passing 

 the stage of exploitation in agriculture. 

 We are rapidly coming to a time when spe- 



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