DRY-LAND EXPERIMENTS 



pert is a graduate of the State Agricul- 

 tural College, is recommended by the 

 local authorities and approved by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture. This official 

 thereupon becomes a civil servant in vir- 

 tue of his office in the Department of 

 Agriculture. The National Department 

 also aids the State farm in the purchase 

 of any special machinery which may be 

 necessary for the carrying out of experi- 

 ments; as, for example, the small 

 threshing machine for harvesting the 

 grain on the experimental plots and other 

 necessary implements. It has never been 

 the intention of the Government to make 

 money out of these stations. In a word 

 they are soil and plant laboratories es- 

 tablished for the express purpose of aid- 

 ing the dry-farmer. Touching results: 

 these stations were started principally to 

 study the fundamental problems of crop 

 rotation and the application of various 

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