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or may not be governmental, and for which 

 the colleges and stations are now organized. 

 There has been much demand for this kind 

 of work and also much need for it, and the 

 Department has tried, with great success, to 

 meet the demand. The agricultural colleges 

 and experiment stations once were weak be- 

 cause undeveloped. They are now beginning 

 to grow and to come to their own. They are 

 covering a broader field. Whatever it may have 

 been necessary for the Department once to do, 

 it may or may not be necessary for it now to 

 do. In making these statements, I desire only 

 to establish the fact that both opportunity and 

 obligation lie with states and localities, — to 

 urge not that the Department do less but that 

 the states do more. It seems to me that we 

 are under obligation to use our influence to 

 relieve the Department of the necessity of 

 doing some of the work that congressmen and 

 others are disposed to ask of it. 



What will be the ultimate relationship be- 

 tween appropriations for agricultural work by 

 the Congress and by the states, I do not now 



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