Agriculture and Its Needs 9 



in combination and through the use of com- 

 mon power may be done in that way so 

 long as the fundamental equality of right is 

 preserved. With this simple limitation, 

 the State must aid all of its industries. 

 And the manner of its aid must be specific, 

 and the measure of it must regard the sig- 

 nificance of the industry. 



New York Agricultural Conditions 

 In days when the term " agriculture " 

 embraced everything pertaining to the 

 farm ; when all there was of agriculture was 

 "practical"; when we were almost wholly 

 an agricultural people; when there were no 

 glittering and gilded cities to allure the 

 youth, and no railroads to carry them there ; 

 when our tillable lands were as potential 

 as any which had been broken; when the 

 farm raised all it needed, gloried in its in- 

 dependence, and was the attractive abid- 

 ing place of its youth; and when a simple 



