Show Student Lif 25 lars every year Five preventative negative results obtained but as methods we will suppose are in above indicated the money has been misspent The investigators vogue and are producing only indifferent and unsatisfactory results now attempt to find some new :n bunt prevention Now let us method More money is necessary suppcse ten thousand dollars is and years and years of time may appropriated to be expended in in- be required to discover a successvestigating the problem It is ful method But when it is found found after using nine thousand the millions of dollars it saves andollars of the available money that nually repays thousands of times four of the practiced methods do the amount of money spent in finding it Cases parallel to this have absolutely nothing towards preventing the disease The farmers actually occurred Bailey’s disare likely to complain that this covery of the formalin treatment discovery — a negative result of the for bunt while not absolutely reinvestigation is absolutely useless liable in all conditions saves the and that the nine thousand dollars farmers of this country millions of has been thrown away wasted dollars every year and should be But a little thought will convince classed as one of the great achieveus that the result though negative ments of agricultural science We see from the foregoing that while has its value The four methods found useless will never be pracmuch money is spent for negative ticed again and the farmers will be results the great benefits resulting spared the expense of applying the from the discovery of positive useful knowledge so reimburses for useless treatments In this way the expenditure that the amount thousands of dollars will be saved The scientific agriculturists who used in getting negative results is have been investigating have eli- negligible we see also that even minated for all time the four menegative results have their value The agricultural research man is thods They now turn to the fifth frequently accused of being a loafer They may find that through unThe wise application the fifth method a spender of public money has failed and that it can be made Experiment station worker and the to prevent the disease or they may employees of the National Department of Agriculture must often find that this too is useless and as a result all the ten thousand hear the cry of misinformed or undollars will be expended and only informed regarding the expensive- - i ( 1 v i I t t Jr f y ! 5 t |