FARM MANAGERS 



and sentiment is bound to express itself. 

 The influence of these colleges and experi- 

 ment stations will surely remake agricul- 

 ture and redirect it. 



This redirection will not show itself in 

 increasing the productiveness of the earth 

 alone, although this must be the funda- 

 mental effort and result. It must consist 

 as well in reorganizing the business or 

 commercial interests of agriculture, and in 

 a radical change in the ideals and modes 

 of living. We shall be able to increase the 

 profitableness of farming when we have 

 learned to apply our science, and to or- 

 ganize it as a part of good business sys- 

 tems. We are now in the epoch of the 

 admiration of scientific fact itself, as if 

 the mere knowledge of the laws underlying 

 good crop and animal production can make 

 a good farmer. 



The only salvation for agriculture is 

 that it rise to meet the college man. This 

 is not because the college man is infallible 

 or the college final, but merely because his 

 practice is to be rational, his abilities well 

 directed, and his ideals cultivated. It does 



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