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merit must come. The conducting of such 

 work must lie with men of ideals. It is time 

 that specially trained men from the colleges of 

 agriculture be put in charge of work in these 

 state departments. If the agricultural college 

 and experiment station idea is worth anything, 

 it is high time that it be worked directly into 

 state government. 



The governmental function in agriculture is 

 very much more than the making and execut- 

 ing of laws. The demand for fiats to extermi- 

 nate bovine tuberculosis is a case in point. 

 The real solution of this question is by means 

 of popular education, conducted through col- 

 leges, schools, institutes and otherwise, com- 

 bined with wise statutory regulation. In five 

 years or less, any state could create public 

 sentiment that would control the situation. 



A new statesmanship. 



Some of the largest questions now before 

 the people are really rural questions ; but 

 many of the great rural questions — particularly 

 those of a social kind — have not yet been rec- 



