COLLEGE AND STATE 



experiment stations. Field laboratories 

 will need to be established in the localities 

 until the application of the problem to the 

 locality is worked out. I think (as I have 

 said on pages 6, 73) that some of the aid 

 rendered to special communities and inter- 

 ests, however, should be paid for directly 

 by the communities themselves so far as 

 the services of the expert or agent are con- 

 cerned. 



Teaching on farms I consider, therefore, 

 to be essential to rural progress. What- 

 ever has thus far been accomplished in 

 this kind of teaching is the merest be- 

 ginning of what a state would profit by. 

 This kind of teaching will be most effec- 

 tive when it can follow or be made a part 

 of the survey or inventory work that I 

 have advised (page 32). 



Local leaders 



If a college of agriculture is to extend 

 itself over the state, it will need to have 

 local agemts or representatives, who will 

 keep the institution informed of the needs 

 of the locality and be prepared to give 

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