WHAT THE FUTURE DEMANDS 167 



and safe-guarding of agriculture. The entire 

 cost of tlie Federal Department of Agriculture 

 and all the educational institutions for agricul- 

 ture, since they were first founded, is less than 

 was spent during a few weeks of warfare by 

 this nation alone in the recent war. And that 

 war w^as the result, indirectly, of the pressure 

 within a crowded continent for the opportunity 

 to expand through trade with foreign countries. 



These larger policies involve in their execu- 

 tion the handling of a multitude of smaller 

 questions, one at a time, as we come to them in 

 the course of our development. One by one, we 

 must take up these minor questions and solve 

 them in keeping with a sound permanent policy. 



These questions may be ranged in the fol- 

 lowing brief form, for convenience in relating 

 them; the order merely indicates their rank as 

 they appear at the moment : 



Financing agriculture comes first, since with- 

 out a capital investment out of the national sav- 

 ings, sufficient to expand production, no great 

 progress can be made. Our financing must in- 

 volve not only the development and reclamation 

 of all available lands, but particularly the equip- 

 ping of farmers so that each may develop the 

 maximum production on the area that he cul- 



