THE NEW EARTH 



methods for preventing diseases among live 

 stock ; others have saved hke sums by reason 

 of their fertihzer experiments. Others have 

 shown how to raise better fruits, how to pro- 

 tect crops from diseases, how to feed beet- and 

 cane-sugar waste to cattle and provide good 

 meat, as well as stop unnecessary leakage of 

 profits, how to conduct farming on arid soils 

 by means of improved irrigation methods, how 

 to raise better stock, better poultry, more 

 eggs, better beef, how to live better upon the 

 farm on the rations at hand so that the farm 

 dietary shall be not only attractive to the 

 taste but strengthening to the body. You can 

 scarcely mention an activity of modern agri- 

 cultural life which does not depend upon the 

 stations, directly or indirectly, for much of 

 the effectiveness of its service. 



There is one test which may be applied to 

 all this great work which sets it apart from 

 ordinary scientific investigation. It may be 

 indicated in the question: Will it help? 



The chief aim of the scientific agriculturist 

 is not to do astonishing things, but to do help- 

 ful, practical things, those which aid the world 

 to move with less friction, which make life 



