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It is the makeshift work of agricultural stations which takes tin- soonest, irhieh 
most interest and is most appreciated it first bj the farming population 
in my ooantry, ami I presume the same is true throughout tin* whole oouutry. i lie 
examination <>t* fertilisers, the testing of seeds sad toils, the snalysisof milk ail 
that sort of w oik. wlii- h ifl \ civ useful in its WSJ, but still I < all it makeshift woi k. 
But it i> more diffloult t>> get sympathy ami sppreoiation ami Interest in more 
strictly scientific work, whioh is in tin- end more practical tin- Investigation of the 
- principles which underlie our agriculture. let the station is. it seems to me, 
under an obligation t«> undertake ami oarrj on, to some extent, ami an Increasing 
t. work of this kiud, which docs not to readily meet with sppreoiation from 
formers; ami if it is t<» b isful station, it miiM educate its constituency op 
t.- work of that kind. When an opportunity offers for cooperation with any farm- 
etyors grange, it should be heartily welcomed by the experiment 
•a. as affordiug an opportunity to enlist tin- sympathy ami Interest of the 
farmers ami extend the sphere of influence of the institution, also to accomplish, if 
lome work which shall bo of scientific value and which will standi Hut 
itation should not undertake a lino of work at the invitation of any farmers 1 
organisation which it is not aide to cany through satisfactorily and completely. 
There is always ■ tendency to multiply the lines of our work and divide our forces 
and to w.-akcn OUTSell OS by BO dividing. We arc apt to be always in a hnst le, w hen 
a long 1» 11 1 1 and a strong pull at some one thing would accomplish more in the end. 
if a line of work suggested is such that a station can not undertake it, it 
OOght frankly to aay BO. Assuming, however, that a station has the time and 
ind the personnel to carry through a work, I should say. by all means 
undertake it: undertake it at some risk ami great inconvenience, if necessary: 
undertake it for the sake of presenting an object lesson of what a thoroughgoing 
scientific piece of work should be, and enlist the sympathy ami attention of the 
forming community. There are none of us, I think, who will not acknowledge 
that we are in need of bringing the station into closer sympathy with the forming 
■ tnency. I should he willing to sacrifice work I had planned or even begun if 
it were necessary in order cordially to accept any offer of cooperation with a farni- 
m in carrying on one of these; experiments. 
I have one word more to >ay about a danger I have met with in my experience in 
andei I i k of this kind. There is alw;i\ s tin- danger of sacrificing accuracy 
to the prejudice who are associated in the work, ami to save those who are 
working in it from inconvenience and extra trouble. A farmer or an association 
I i ml at the disposition of the station, or offers men, or tools, or money, without 
full appreciation of the pains and labor involved in carrying through experiments 
thoroughly, as they ought to be carried through. We all know that an experiment 
lly calls for a good deal larger outlay Of time, money, and pains than we antici- 
pated at first, and there is always this danger of sacrificing something of accuracy 
to those who are cooperating in the experiment. It is a mist., cially 
essential in sm b >rk which Is carried on with formers 1 organisations 
should be a model of < i. It should be an o >n to the farms 
aceurs ey in the interpretation obtained. We 
had a litth •• in our stal ion in work 1 I con- 
sider it the ot iflo 
value, but tnenl rail iii.it has bei d of 
i the ral i>rk to the 
: of any t Ight I 
Btitut. I of the 8 ipei inieiit 
•u. 
Mr. Emery. This fch me. In 1889 
was quite 
ent p pub- 
lished iu a bull 
