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fertilizers in our state during the last twenty-five years of this period. At 

 the experiment station we have a splendid series of experiment, the most 

 extensive series of field experiments in the western hemisphere or in the 

 world. We have been showing for the last ten years that it was eminently 

 possible and practicable to double, or nearly double the yields of corn and 

 wheat in Ohio, and do it by measures within the reach of every farmer 

 within the state. We have made an effort to reach the average farmer 

 within the state. There are 275,000 of them in Ohio. Of that number, 

 65,000 have thought it worth while to waste a postal card in requesting 

 the bulletins of the Experiment Station. They will not come to us; they 

 will not listen to us; and you have the same history in Pennsylvania. 

 Mr. Sandles, however, has solved the riddle for us. He has cut the Gordian 

 knot by getting past the farmer to the farmer's boy, and through the 

 farmer's boy we are going to reach the farmers of Ohio; we are going to 

 revolutionize the agriculture of our state within the next ten or fifteen 

 years. I thank you. 



Mrs. Smith: We have with us Mr. Agee, formerly of Pennsylvania 

 State College, but now with New Jersey. We would like to hear from him. 



Mr. Agee: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I would like 

 to make the claim and a true one that I am a Buckeye, because I am very 

 proud of my native state, Ohio, this evening. I am proud of the fact that 

 in our state of Ohio we have such co-operation in all of our agricultural 

 agencies, and that there is no overlapping, that the money is expended in 

 the wisest way, and that the state is as a unit promoting the art of agricul- 

 ture. I have a right to feel proud, as I spent my boyhood and many later 

 years in my native state. 



Now, my good friends, your Chairman has insisted that I appear 

 before you, but really I have no special message. It seems to be a time 

 for congratulation that we are awakening to the fact that we have the 

 science that relates to agriculture; that we can interest our young people 

 in it; and that they will naturally go back to rural life, because there is a 

 science connected with it, because there is opportunity. I believe every- 

 body in this world should wor.k. Most people must work. I would like 

 to see all of our boys and girls have an opportunity while in school to get 

 some training to travel along the line of their natural bent. I believe one- 

 half of the boys and girls of this country would naturally turn to rural life 

 if they believed there was opportunity in it. I believe the schools should 

 use for training subjects some of the knowledge which shall enable that 

 fifty per cent, if I guess aright, to grab a-hold of the world's work when they 

 go out in the rural districts, rather than in the centers of population. 



You talk about the drift to the cities, and you deplore it, but the only 

 possible thing to do is to give that fifty per cent of our youthful population 

 their rights, which is a knowledge of the science which is concerned with 

 rural life. A little bit of knowledge will enable them to get hold of the 



