lOO The State and the Farmer 



(2) Relatively few of the technical agri- 

 cultural problems have true governmental 

 or regulatory significance. The fact that 

 the problems are common to many or even 

 to all of the states does not place them in 

 this category. Some technical problems 

 have direct governmental significance be- 

 cause one state or even a group of states 

 does not aflFord sufficient base on which 

 they can be studied, and because they im- 

 pose or necessitate regulation or elucidation 

 by a central authority: the study of meteor- 

 ological conditions is a typical example. 

 Some problems are so expensive to inves- 

 tigate, that state governments may not be 

 able to handle them. There may be certain 

 other problems that need to be studied in 

 all parts of the country in order that general 

 and true conclusions may be drawn ; these 

 may be made the subjects of mutual and 

 genuine cooperative study by persons in the 

 localities organized to work consistently and 

 harmoniously for a sufficient length of time 

 to arrive at useful results. 



