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of organizing the social forces there. The 

 time cannot be far distant when there will be 

 some kind of a voluntary association between 

 the students of all agricultural colleges, look- 

 ing to the elevation of agricultural communi- 

 ties as well as to their own progress as farm- 

 ers. Something like the student volunteer 

 movement will eventually come out of this 

 rising sentiment. 



All public welfare societies should endeavor 

 to interest good countrymen in the work that 

 they are doing, bringing the countrymen into 

 the organization, making them in effect local 

 agents and representatives : this is very much 

 better than to attempt to reach the problem 

 by merely sending persons into the country. 



3. THE GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTION IN 

 AGRICULTURE 



One by one the dominant affairs of the peo- 

 ple are expressing themselves in administra- 

 tional departments of government. Insurance, 

 supervision of buildings, management of chari- 

 ties and corrections, engineering improvements, 



