The trail blazers . provedtype of barley has yielded an income of $12,000,000, and is still adding to thissum; the prevention of wheat smut has saved the farmersfrom $2,000,000 to $6,000,000 a year, the development of anew variety of corn has added 15,000,000 bushels of corn ayear; and in the ten years from 1900 to 1910 the value of all farm property in thestate increased over 74%; the number of its cows increased 47%; the annual valueof its butter output 70%; its cheese product 86%; and its yield of corn from 25bushels to the acre, the average for the whole country, to 36 bushels to the acre.
The trail blazers . provedtype of barley has yielded an income of $12,000,000, and is still adding to thissum; the prevention of wheat smut has saved the farmersfrom $2,000,000 to $6,000,000 a year, the development of anew variety of corn has added 15,000,000 bushels of corn ayear; and in the ten years from 1900 to 1910 the value of all farm property in thestate increased over 74%; the number of its cows increased 47%; the annual valueof its butter output 70%; its cheese product 86%; and its yield of corn from 25bushels to the acre, the average for the whole country, to 36 bushels to the Illinois, improvement of corn culture, following practices advocated by theAgricultural College, increased the yield five bushels to the acre, resulting in anincreased income of $2,000,000 a year. The same sort of improvement of thecorn crop conducted in Iowa by the Agricultural College, resulted in even more remarkable gains. In California, the destruction of orange scale saved the fruit 12 A T. W. C. A. DINNER IN SHEPARD growers $5,000,000 a year. In Oregon, the benefits derived from the Stationsdemonstrations of improved moisture conservation for the dry-farming areas ofthe State, have alone been worth more than the total sum that the State hasexpended on the College. Instances of the practical benefit of the experimental and research work ofthe College, often running into a money value of thousands of dollars, are multi-plied in the pages of this bulletin dealing with the work of the different depart-ments. But these more or less immediate results of experi-mental effort are often the least of the services that the in-vestigators, in library, laboratory, or field, are rendering totheir institution and to the cause of science. Such results, while interesting anddesirable, are often but the foam on the riffle of the stream, while the real goldof the washing is gathering in the hidden pocket for a future disclosure and is truth that is e
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