i io The State and the Farmer 



nation; for the effectiveness of a nation rests 

 on its farms, shops, mines, commerce, and the 

 plain daily welfare of the people. 



We must now consider what are the state 

 agencies or instruments with which the United 

 States Department of Agriculture is to coop- 

 erate in its coming organization work. Of 

 course it should cooperate with all agencies; 

 but there must be some, more than others, 

 with which it can work most intimately and 

 authoritatively. These agencies in the states 

 are the colleges and experiment stations 

 founded on federal grants; these institutions 

 stand in much the same relation to the state, 

 so far as leadership is concerned, as the United 

 States Department stands to the nation. It 

 might seem, at first thought, that the state 

 departments of agriculture are the proper 

 official channels through which general educa- 

 tional and organizational work should be 

 accomplished. It is a fact, however, that these 

 departments, speaking broadly, have not risen 

 to leadership. Their proper field is closely 

 governmental, inspectional and regulatory. 



