In addition to all this,
appropriations are generally made for the holding of farmers' institutes
at which instruction is given by experts and farmers exchange experiences.
The agricultural colleges have a total of over one hundred thousand
graduates, men and women, and it is they, and those who follow in
increasing numbers, who are to cultivate the valley of Lavoisier and
Berthelot even as the pioneers and producers of the past have cultivated
for the world the valley of Marquette and La Salle.
It is not all as bright and promising as this rather generalized picture
may seem to indicate. There are still isolations, there are bad crops in
unfavorable places and untoward seasons. There are human failures. It is
an intimation of the darker side that President Roosevelt appointed a
commission [Footnote: Commission on Country Life.] a few years ago to see
what could be done for the ignorances, the lonesomenesses, the monotonies
of country life in America, and to prevent the migration to cities, even
as Louis XIV.
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