172 The State and the Farmer 



These brief remarks on the colleges of agri- 

 culture and the experiment stations associated 

 with them, indicate that these are not mere 

 class institutions that are serving only techni- 

 cal farming needs. Yet there is constantly 

 recurring comment in the press on the fact 

 that not all the graduates return to farms and 

 not all the bulletins reach farmers. These in- 

 stitutions are maintained by all the people, 

 and for all the people who are interested in the 

 work for which they stand. Neither do all 

 graduates of colleges of law become lawyers, 

 nor of colleges of medicine become physi- 

 cians; nor is it desirable that they should. 

 We need an educated laity in law and medi- 

 cine, and equally in agriculture, for the big 

 questions are social and national. The solu- 

 tion of the questions will not come in a day; 

 but it is coming. 



6. APPEAL TO PERSONAL LEADERSHIP 



All these discussions mean that there needs 

 to be a redirection of the point of view of the 

 man. We have laid great emphasis on the 



