114 "^^^^ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Congress to conceive of itself as a board of directors super- 

 vising and controlling a great enterprise.' 



In concluding an administrative study of one of the great 

 departments of government, perhaps the strongest impres- 

 sion one receives is that, while a given department may 

 'make, or fail to make, many minor improvements which, if 

 made, would go far toward more effective administration, 

 there can be nothing like an adequate solution of our admin- 

 istrative problems short of a complete reorganization and 

 revivifying of the system as a whole. There are ever in- 

 creasing evidences that important changes will be made in 

 the not distant future. 



6 Ibid., p. 96 flF. 



