EXPERIMENT STATIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 21, 29 May 1913, Page 4

EXPERIMENT STATIONS.

Dr. H .C. White, in the course of an address on the Agricultural Experiment Stations in America, speaking of the true objective of such stations, says each should be “a scientific laboratory in the fullest sense, given over to varied but purely scientific work, with fields and barns and herds ranking frith raiscroscope, balance, and burette as mere implements Of research. It is experimental only sc far as it may test, on a strictly laboratory scale, the suggestion of research. ' It is the investigative department of the college to which it may, be attached, and, as such, may be called upon to furnish new truthr to be taught in the class-room and the laboratory, in the extension lecture, and on the demonstration farm. With this distinctive and restricted purpose the field of. its operation is yet ample and sufficient. The acquisition :of knowledge must precede its application, and further real progress in agriculture must, therefore, come not so much from improved instruction, ir

the schools, from increase in our, ex tension teaching, or from demon'etra tion in the field, valuable and import ant as these may be, but mainly 1 Iron research in the station laboratory. And yet a greater service may tin station render to the Stfitb. 1 Amonj; all the public institutions, it shoulc stand pre-eminently to illustrate tin persistent, untiring search for truth

’ For it is the search afte truth that is the basis of moral train ing, and it is the profession of trutl that alone shall make us free.” ’