COLLEGE AND STATE 



nevertheless weak and fragmentary as 

 compared with what needs to be accom- 

 plished. A broad system or plan, national 

 in its scope, is now needed, to rouse the 

 entire open country and to set at work the 

 ferment of new ideas and new practices. 



I am not to be understood as saying that 

 extension work with farm people is the 

 exclusive province of the colleges of agri- 

 culture. Other colleges, universities and 

 schools may engage in it with satisfaction 

 to themselves and the people, if they are 

 equipped for the work; and it is always 

 well to have several points of view on the 

 same line of effort. The regular colleges 

 of agriculture are the institutions that are 

 at present best qualified or equipped for 

 this form of extension teaching, and it is 

 to be expected that they will always hold 

 the leadership in the agricultural phases 

 of the work. In extension teaching for 

 farm people, we need a cooperative effort, 

 conducted on a wide and comprehensive 

 plan, between the technical and the so- 

 called liberal sides. 



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