328 BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE. [Jan. 



who draw their conclusions from facts, and do not endeavor 

 to bend their facts to their theories. When the Maryland 

 Experiment Station obtains and publishes definite results 

 from the cultivation of the potato, and the New Hampshire 

 Station lays down combinations of food for the different 

 objects of feeding, tested on the different animals fed, they 

 are engaged in disseminating useful knowledge, and stand by 

 the side of the farmer in his labor. It is this form of investi- 

 gation which may lead and guide American agriculture in 

 the career which is constantly opening before it as the 

 industry of an independent, land-holding people, to whom 

 pseudo-science is an obstacle and a hindrance. 



