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Whenever regional information is desired 

 by the government, on its part, there will be 

 no difficulty in arranging for the securing of 

 it through the regular federal agents in the 

 states, — that is, through the agricultural col- 

 leges and experiment stations, — either from 

 officers of the stations themselves or by federal 

 officers delegated for the time being to the 

 colleges or stations to work in the states. 

 The college and experiment station will be 

 glad to put their laboratories and facilities at 

 the disposal of any investigator who wishes to 

 come and make use of them. They would not 

 think it right, however, to have independent 

 laboratories or fields developed alongside, 

 even though requested by persons in their 

 own state or by the state department of agri- 

 culture, — not because of jealousy (for jealousy 

 should be unknown to scientific men) but 

 because such action would tend to diminish 

 the confidence of its own people in the local 

 institution, depriving the institution of the 

 support it needs for the work for which it 

 was created, and encouraging in the people a 



