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different We are apt to keep the matter pretty clearly in mind and if we are 

 disposed to philosophize, to do a lot of thinking as to the reason why such a 

 thing could possibly happen. 



EXPERIENCE BEGETS CAUTION. 



Some of you who have noted the character of the work of the Extension 

 Department of the Experiment Station, with which I have been connected since 



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commencing work there in 1904, will now understand why every feature which has 

 Ibeen taken up by that Department has been encompassed by a great big question 

 Ttnark; why we have always introduced everything by means of cooperative expe- 

 riments; why we have always insisted that negative results in connection with 

 4hese experiments were just as valuable to us as positive results, and. why on 

 almost every occasion we have been so extremely non-committal. 



