There can be no doubt, however, of the value of a
good experimental station there that shall have its branches in
every State of the Union. The results to flow from such stations
will not depend upon the number of acres at command, and it will
be far wiser and more economical for the commissioner to make each
agricultural college that accepted the government endowment
auxiliary to the national bureau, so that the experimental farm
that is now, or should be, connected with each of these
institutions might be at its service and under the general
management of the superintendent of the main station. There is
reason to believe that the directors of these colleges would
cheerfully have them constituted as experimental stations under
the direction of the department, and thus help to make it really
national--the head of a vast system that should ramify through all
parts of the land....
"With the different State agricultural colleges, and the State
agricultural societies, or boards, we have every advantage for
building up a national bureau of agriculture worthy of the country
and its vast productive interests, and on a thoroughly economical
basis, such as that of Prussia, for instance.
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