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Discussion

Illinois Experiment Station

Abstract

If ever there was a time when every dollar spent for research in our field should be spent almost with a "money back" guarantee, that time is the present. It is entirely fitting, therefore, that this body should be called upon again to consider the technic of experimental procedure.

Professor Morrison has intimated, and rightly to be sure, that the method employed in carrying out an experiment has much to do with the significance of the results. An experimental method is only a tool, just as truly as is a pen, a pencil or a piece of crayon. Just as we choose with some care one of these as a medium of expression to suit the conditions under which we work, so, it seems to me, we should, after we have carefully studied the nature of the question to be solved by an experiment, select the experimental device best