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SCIENCE 



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utilization of the wastes on the farm. Fac- 

 tories should be developed in the country, 

 near the sources of production, for the 

 preparation for final consumption of the 

 materials grown on the farm. Such fac- 

 tories are necessary for the highest degree 

 of economy in the production of food and 

 to give the laboring man an opportunity 

 to gain a livelihood outside of the con- 

 gested city. Foodstuffs are already too 

 high to stand the strain of the additional 

 cost of transporting the raw materials long 

 distances in order that they may be manu- 

 factured into edible form, then shipped 

 back to the consumer in the very commun- 

 ity in which they were grown, and where 

 their manufacture might have been accom- 

 plished to better advantage. 



In countries where the raw materials of 

 our foodstuffs are chiefly grown, there they 

 should be chiefly manufactured. Kansas 

 wheat should be milled in Kansas. Just as 

 the experiment station has made a pro- 

 found impress upon the methods of farm- 

 ing, so may it improve the methods of 

 manufacturing the products of the farm. 

 The millers of the state need just such 

 scientific assistance as the station can pro- 

 vide, all with a view not so much to help- 

 ing the miller directly as to improving the 

 quantity and quality of the foodstuffs 

 garnered from the Kansas wheat fields. 



THE ECONOMICS OF MARKETING 



Such vital questions as how to dispose 

 of the products that they may yield the 

 largest returns, or how to spend the in- 

 come so as to bring the best results in the 

 highest sense, have been practically neg- 

 lected. 



To correct this one-sided development 

 and meet this larger demand, the depart- 

 ment of history of the college should be so 

 strengthened and enlarged as to cover, 

 both by instruction and by research, the 

 industries of our country. The depart- 



ment of economies should be prepared to 

 fully cover the range of transportation, 

 manufactures, marketing, etc., as they re- 

 late to the farming and industrial classes. 

 The department of sociology should deal 

 with the life of the people in the open 

 country and in the districts supported by 

 the industries, and be able to suggest plans 

 for their immediate and permanent im- 

 provement. 



The department of architecture should 

 make a large impress upon the homes and 

 public buildings of the state, and upon the 

 location and arrangement of the accessory 

 buildings that they may conserve the 

 strength of the housewife, afford the sani- 

 tary conditions essential to health and add 

 to the comfort and pleasure of country life. 



AMERICANS LIVE WASTEPULLT 



Americans, poor and rich, live waste- 

 fully. This can not continue. A new 

 basis must be established which shall, 

 while avoiding the extreme care and 

 economy of continental Europe, which 

 destroys initiative and kills pride, stop the 

 major wastes in our system of living. 



But of more importance than mere econ- 

 omy of living is the influence of the envir- 

 onment and method of living upon the 

 race. Will out of it all in the long run 

 come a strong and virile race of people— a 

 race capable of meeting the complex prob- 

 lems of the future and advancing still 

 further our civilization? 



It is especially appropriate to emphasize 

 this point in the institution which, among 

 the land-grant colleges at least, has been a 

 leader in this line, and which to-day boasts 

 the largest and perhaps best equipped de- 

 partment of domestic science and art in 

 America. 



As much, however, as has been done in 

 this direction here and elsewhere, and 

 proud as we have a right to be of the rec- 

 ord of this college in this direction, real 



