COLLEGE AND STATE 



The extent of special knowledge about 

 every crop and every kind of animal has 

 now come to be so great, and so many per- 

 sons are asking definite questions and 

 deserve such explicit and careful replies, 

 that teachers are becoming more and more 

 cautious about giving advice. This calls for 

 a greater degree of specialization and con- 

 sequently many more teachers and experts, 

 each teacher teaching only that which he 

 personally knows. 



Crops and live-stock 



There are nearly one hundred persons on 

 the staffs of certain colleges of agriculture, 

 and yet there are not half enough to make 

 it possible to answer anywhere near all 

 the questions that are asked by farmers in 

 person and by letter. There must be spe- 

 cialists in cereals, potatoes, hay and 

 forage, the different kinds of fruits, the 

 different kinds of vegetables, the different 

 kinds of flower crops, forest crops, nursery 

 crops, in cattle, sheep, horses and mules, 

 swine, bees, fish and other aquatic animals, 

 all the different kinds of poultry. New 

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