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sider the status of all the agricultural indus- 

 tries in the state, and it should also take full 

 cognizance of educational and social conditions. 

 This constitutes the greatest need of prac- 

 tical farming at the present day. The agricul- 

 tural institutions are working out the princi- 

 ples, but they may not be able to apply these 

 principles to individual farms because they do 

 not know the exact local conditions. The 

 farmer himself may not know the principles, 

 nor even the local facts. The result is a lack 

 of articulation between the teaching and the 

 practice. Farming is founded on the facts of 

 the locality: no business can hope for the best 

 success until it has exact knowledge of its 

 underlying conditions. 



Agricultural surveys. 



These kinds of inquiries are now well under 

 way in the form of "surveys" of many kinds, 

 proceeding from the colleges of agriculture and 

 the United States Department of Agriculture. 

 The studies of larger range, that purpose 

 to compare general agricultural conditions in 



