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to teach every farmer how to test his own 

 seeds. 



I think, therefore, that no agricultural work 

 public or private, no institution state or 

 national, no movement educational or philan- 

 thropic, has adequate justification unless its 

 one purpose or effect is to allow native indi- 

 vidual responsibility and initiative to develop 

 in the man who stands directly on the land; 

 and, if it is necessary to stimulate enterprise, the 

 effort should lie preferably with the institu- 

 tion or agency that is nearest to the man and 

 his problem. 



Agencies of local communication. 



The city has developed great effectiveness 

 through its means of communication. The 

 open country is just beginning to consider a 

 similar phase of development. Undoubtedly, 

 the engineer is to have a marked influence on 

 the institutions of country life. Comfortable 

 highways and electric lines are to open up the 

 country. They will thread it with a network 

 of avenues. Of themselves, these avenues will 



