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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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WORKING WITH THE FARMER 329 This survey has furnished a mass of material which can be utilized by graduate students, and has shown that it will be possible for advanced investigators at Urbana to do much in the service of local or State educational authorities. The work done for the State by the college of agriculture and the agricultural experiment station falls under three general heads: their activities in research, their dissemination of advice and information by correspondence, and their extension teaching through the short course, the lectures of the faculty at institutes, and other agencies. It should be said that there is little of University consciousness in this work and that college and station do not regard themselves as entitled to credit either for altruistic labor or for the originating of many endeavors. The work which they do represents, in general, the response to a demand long ago voiced by the intelligent agricultural population of the State; they did not so much offer themselves as they were chosen by the State as the proper agency. It is not so much that they are performing a certain function for the State as that the State is performing it through them. The same principle applies to practically all the other University divisions which seem to be of general State servicers But in the case of the college and station it is particularly clear, for farmers are scattered all over Illinois who show as earnest and scientific an interest in the advancement of their calling as does the faculty at Urbana. The three general activities mentioned are closely connected, for the correspondence and lecturing deal mainly with the subject under investigation. The chief of the fields of research may be briefly enumerated. An extensive physical and chemical anal-
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