CHAPTER XVII 



THE EXPERIMENT STATIONS 



^ I ^ HREE agents in the dissemination of 

 -*- the knowledge of the New Earth stand 

 out above others :^ — -the national government 

 through its Department of Agriculture, the 

 agricultural colleges of the different states, and 

 the State Experiment Stations. In consider- 

 ing the scope and bearing of these three 

 powerful aids to modern agriculture, it is not 

 necessary to attempt to place one above the 

 other, — there is quite enough glory to go 

 round. Each in its particular department of 

 endeavor has some particular influence larger 

 and broader than that of either of the others. 

 It is of peculiar interest to note, in this con- 

 nection, that these three agents are essentially 

 of the age of the New Earth. Many lines 

 leading to the development of the new order 

 of things had their rise in practically the same 

 period, the beginning of the last third of the 

 nineteenth century, — modern forestry, the 



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