Experiment Station Record, Volume 45, July-December, 1921 Page: 3
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1921] EDITORIAL. 3
ated." This anniversary, he went on to say, could well be regarded
by friends of the Massachusetts Agricultural College with feelings
of deep satisfaction, for the college "has had a most worthy part
in one of the greatest periods of history. It has had its full share
in the development of a system of agricultural education which is the
admiration of the world. On its staff have been many of the most
eminent educators of their time. An astonishingly large percentage
of its men have had a prominent part in the agricultural development
of the Nation, and have thus multiplied many times the work
which has been done here."
Secretary Wallace went on to discuss the revolutionary changes
in the agricultural situation during the past half century, notably
the remarkable increase in food production. This increase he attributed
in part to the addition of vast areas to our cultivated land, but
"much of it was due to the scientific research and inventive genius
of the thousands of young men who got their inspiration and training
in this and like colleges. For it is during this period that we
have seen the development of agricultural science. The National
Department of Agriculture was created; the State experiment stations
were established; the extension system of carrying the teachings
of the colleges and the discoveries of the scientists to the men
on the farms was developed."
Some of the new and complex agricultural problems of the present
reconstruction period were then recounted, and as a means of helping
to solve them increased attention by the agricultural colleges to economic
questions was strongly advocated. "Looking back, we can see
now that if our agricultural colleges have failed to measure up to
their greatest opportunities of service that failure is due to confining
practically all of their effort to the promotion of greater production
and giving so little attention to the no less important matter
of agricultural economics. The farmer needs all of the training
in production that the colleges can give him, but the most urgent
need now is the development of an entirely new realm of organized
knowledge of the economic factors which will enable him to cheapen
his production and improve his distribution.
"As we plan for the future it seems clear to me that, without
abating in any way our efforts in the field of scientific research,
without slacking in our search for better and cheaper methods of
production, it is the clear duty of the agricultural colleges of the
country to give more and more attention to study and instruction
in the field of agricultural economics. The mission of our agricultural
colleges is not to promote agriculture at the expense of
industry of commerce, nor to give the farmer the sort of an education
that will place him in a position of unfair advantage over
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United States. Office of Experiment Stations. Experiment Station Record, Volume 45, July-December, 1921, book, 1921; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5009/m1/30/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.