Syllabus of Illustrated Lecture on Essentials of Successful Field Experimentation (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The experiment station is the distinguishing feature of the new agriculture. It stands for organized research in agriculture, for the concentration of the knowledge and skill and energy of the entire State on the solution of the unsettled problems of the farm.

The experiment station is created to do things which are impossible to the ordinary farmer. It is furnished with costly equipment and is conducted by men trained in the methods of scientific research, who are made free from other cares in order that they may devote their undivided energies to helping the farmer.

But while there are some things which can only be done by the aid of such an equipment as that of the experiment station, there are other things which the station can never do, and the farmer who profits most by the work of the experiment station is he who is him self an experimenter.

It is the province of the experiment station to discover and forma late general principles. The application Of these principles must be made by the farmer himself. Even were there an experiment station in every county, there would still be hundreds _of farms Within each county on which some of the conditions would vary from those of the station, and while no farmer should attempt to duplicate the elaborate work of the experiment station, neither can any farmer afford to blindly accept the conclusions reached at the experiment station with out subjecting some of them to the test of further investigation on his own farm.

Were there no other reason for this than the benumbing effect upon the intellect produced by the unthinking acceptance of the dicta of others, as evidenced by the unnumbered centuries during Which the sickle remained unchangingly a chief implement of husbandry, this unchangeableness in implements symbolizing a similar monotony in the farmer's intellectual processes, that alone would be abundantly sufficient. The farmer of to-day must learn to think or he is lost, and nothing is more conducive to exact thinking than scientific experiment.

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