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Show It would prove a most serious misfortune mis-fortune if the multiplication of experimental experi-mental farm stations should result it farmers generally ceasing to conduct careful experiments of their own. T take knowledge at second hnnd it oftentimes necessary, but it should b revised in the light of personal experience, experi-ence, and thus digested it becoma valuable. No experimental statloi can satisfy the local condition of ever) farmer. The results of each are onlj valuable as suggestions to farmer whereby they can personally conduct similar experiments if successful oi avoid those which have been officially discredited. It is this use of experimental experi-mental stations that makes them important im-portant aids to good farming, scarcely less so. and with the same limitation w the experience of farmers reporte d In agricultural newspapers. |