Show 2 Student Life THE SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURIST SOME OF THE THINGS HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED SOME PROBLEMS HE HAS TO SOLVE AND HIS ECONOMIC RELATIONS This article is addressed primarily to the student in agriculture but may possibly be of some interest to everybody who has an appreciation of the role that scientific agriculture plays in our national life There are almost always times in the school year when the student of agriculture questions the advisability of his continuing in his studies he is liable to think occasionally that the practice of scientific agriculture as he is studying it is beyond all hope of any degree of realization that it is not practicable on the farm and that he is learning something which will be of no value except that it will enable him to teach it to others who in turn will teach it to still others If the student were correct in this skepticism there would indeed be no reason for his studying agriculture and furthermore if his skepticism were justified the world would have known it long ago and as a result the present recognition of scientific agriculture and the comprehensive agricultural courses now being taught throughout the country would have been impossible It is the purpose of this article to discuss some of the accomplishments of the scientific agriculturist — the work that has brought him the recognition he now has to enumerate some of the problems which he is expected to solve and finally to indicate his economic relations to his surroundings It is hoped that some encouragement may be given here to the student who under estimates the importance of such studies A large amount of money is expended annually in agricultural research Some of it is necessarily expended without bringing any direct remuneration but the thought ful man who has seen conditions broadly knows that negative results in experimentation have a value almost as near as positive results Bunt in wheat causes a loss of about twenty-fiv- e million dol- - |