94 The State and the Farmer 



to make his business thrive, he endeavors to 

 determine what each department needs and 

 appropriates to it all that he can spare and in 

 proportion to its efficiency; and if any depart- 

 ment is unable to do good work because of 

 lack of facilities, he considers it good business 

 policy to put that department in the way of 

 accomplishing its best results. Now, the state 

 often puts itself on the defensive against itself, 

 as if under the necessity to repress its own de- 

 partments. The result is that the director of 

 an agricultural institution may feel obliged to 

 organize his friends and become what is inap- 

 propriately called a "politician" in order that 

 he may secure facilities to serve the state. It 

 has been necessary for persons who have seen 

 the need in advance, to do just this kind of 

 pioneer work, but it would be unfortunate to 

 oblige them to continue it. It would seem to be 

 not beyond reason for the state to have an 

 officer, commission or board, — -as, in fact, some 

 states have, — to make a yearly study of all state 

 institutions thoroughly and to make recom- 

 mendations as to comparative necessities, allow- 



