ORGANIZATION 



yet organized this fact into such a philos- 

 ophy of application, however, as to give the 

 countryman full confidence in his ability to 

 contend with his native conditions. The 

 new knowledge that the farmer acquires is 

 likely to be held as a mere passive posses- 

 sion ; it does not work itself out into action 

 as it would in the case of men who are or- 

 ganized to accomplish definite results. An 

 organized community is one in which the 

 new knowledge and appliances are put into 

 use. 



The community should prove up 



Rural societies can accomplish much for 

 the community by putting up money to 

 have special investigations made of the lo- 

 cal or special problems. A society of gin- 

 seng growers recently made a purse to call 

 in a plant pathologist to make investiga- 

 tions of ginseng diseases. This illustrates 

 a very important principle: the college of 

 agriculture or the experiment station of 

 the state cannot find the funds to meet all 

 the difficulties in the state, and the people 

 should be willing to contribute money for 

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