position in an agricultural college unless he has had both farm
experience and scientific training. He and most of his associates
are owners of farms and would return to them again if they did not
feel that they are of more service to agriculture as teachers and
investigators."

"I am very glad to know about this," said Mr. Thornton. "Certainly
your opinion, based upon such knowledge as you have of your own
college, is worth more than all the common talk I have ever heard
from those who never saw an agricultural college. I wish you would
tell me something more in regard to what crops are made of and about
the methods of making land better even while we are taking crops
from it every year."






CHAPTER XIV

A LESSON IN FARM SCIENCE





"THE subject is somewhat complicated," Percy replied, "yet it
involves no more difficult problems than have been solved in many
other lines. The chief trouble is that we have done too little