Agriculture and Its Needs 47 



the end that they may lead the way, and 

 when such men lead the way all the rest 

 will be copying larger men and better meth- 

 ods than they have sufficient opportunity 

 to copy now. And there must be a place 

 which will not only initiate new undertak- 

 ings and lift old ones to higher planes, but 

 a place to which any occult difficulty may 

 be taken for investigation and report. And 

 investigation and teaching, scientific re- 

 search and the training of teachers and 

 superintendents, must go together because 

 one is as vital as the other, and each inspires 

 and energizes the other. And with it all 

 there must be, in the agricultural college 

 at least, the ever-present feeling that agri- 

 culture is our most important business, and 

 that the college which can quicken it has a 

 larger mission and is entitled to a fuller 

 reward than any other kind of a college 

 which the ingenuity of man and the gener- 



