Report1908- . duties of the position I held were so exactingthat I could not find the opportunity to make an adequate study offarm practice. In December, 1901, I came to the Department ofAgriculture at Washington. There I found I was free to developmy own policy. The study of farm practice, especially on the mostsuccessful farms, has been continued since that time, and we nowhave twenty-seven men engaged in this work. Unfortunately, the publications we have been able to issue thusfar give only the most meager idea of the work we are is as if we were prospecting a gold mine. The l
Report1908- . duties of the position I held were so exactingthat I could not find the opportunity to make an adequate study offarm practice. In December, 1901, I came to the Department ofAgriculture at Washington. There I found I was free to developmy own policy. The study of farm practice, especially on the mostsuccessful farms, has been continued since that time, and we nowhave twenty-seven men engaged in this work. Unfortunately, the publications we have been able to issue thusfar give only the most meager idea of the work we are is as if we were prospecting a gold mine. The location and outlineof the main paying streaks are beginning to appear. Meanwhile, wehave been describing some of the indivdual nuggets we have un- 46 OHIO CORN IMPROVEMBNT ASSOCIATION earthed. These are the individual farms whose system of manage-ment has been described in our bulletins. We hope before manymore years to beg-in to publish bulletins dealing with the generalprinciples involved in farm One of the most fruitful lines of work we have^^undertaken, butabout which we have as yet published nothing, is the detailed studyof the work on selected farms with a view to finding the cost of everykind of farm operation and the amount of labor required for everydepartment of work on the farm. These studies include also thecharacter and cost of the necessary equipment for farms of all types ANNUAL REPORT 47 and sizes, along- with a careful studj^ of the system of managementin vogue on the farm. It is this line of work in which we found theOhio Experiment Station deeply interested and eag-er to cooperatewith us. Because of the highly satisfactory system of cooperation wehave with your State Experiment Station we have been able to insti-tute investigations of this kind on more farms in Ohio than in anyother state and with less expenditure of funds. To say that we arehighly gratified to be able to make such an arrangement is putting-it mildly. We propose to put more energ
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