32 THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



active in shaping what might be termed the policy of the 

 federal government toward the agricultural interests of the 

 country, and having seen how at least a part of that policy .■ 



has been translated by Congress into concrete laws, let us 

 now examine the kind of institution that has been de- 

 veloped and organized in order that the \vill of the people 

 thus translated and expressed may actually be carried into 

 effect. 



