COLLEGE AND STATE 



of the counties of an eastern state, not one 

 man was found who knew how much it cost 

 him to produce milk or to raise any of his 

 crops. 



If the different courses in a highly devel- 

 oped college of agriculture are not tied to- 

 gether, the student is likely to lose himself 

 in details and to fail to construct for him- 

 self a business plan that will work. 



The human problems 



The people themselves and the affairs 

 whereby they live must also be studied. 

 These are economic and social questions, 

 concerned with the whole problem of how 

 the people organize their lives and their 

 business. On the economics side are the 

 great questions of taxation, distribution of 

 products, marketing, business organiza- 

 tion, and the like. The whole relation of 

 the man and woman to the community in 

 respect to social intercourse, schools, 

 churches, societies, the broad influence of 

 telephones and roads and machinery on 

 rural life, the social results of immigration, 

 the scheme of rural government, the poli- 

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