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Show FARMING NOW MADE A SCIENCE. Work That the Colleges Have Done, and Have Yet to Do. Agriculture must rise to meet the college man, declares a writer In the Century Magazine. Tho leading agricultural agri-cultural colleges are now so well established, es-tablished, and are teaching In. such direct di-rect and applicable ways, that they are creating a body of ability and sentiment sen-timent touching country life that has never been known before. This ability abil-ity and sentiment Is bdund to express itself. The Influence of these colleges and experiment stations will surely remake agriculture and redirect It. This redirection will not show Itself It-self In Increasing tho productiveness of the earth only, although this must be the fundamental effort and result. It must consist as well In reorganizing the business or commercial Interests of agriculture, and In a radical change in the Ideals and modes of living. We shall be able to Increase the profitableness profitable-ness of farming when we have learned to apply our science, and to organize It as a part of good business systems. We are now in the epoch of the laudation lauda-tion of science itself, as If the mere knowledge of the laws underlying good crop and animal production can make a eood farmer. |