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can it be possible for the best man in the world to plan and carry out 

 a series of experiments, unless he knows how much money he is to 

 have to use for his work? What encouragement can there be for a 

 man to experiment, if he does not know what money he is to have for 

 use? If there is one thing we should keep in mind at all times, it is 

 this 'thought. Demand of the Board of Curators $4000 per year for 

 the use of the Horticultural department. 



The three of four points at issue are, that when they get a man 

 for the position, let them see that he is just the man^ and then keep 

 him, keep him, keep him, so that he can grow into it, and his experi- 

 ments can be carried out, even if it should take a life-time. 



Mr. Whitten, the man in the position now, will find the Society 

 his right-hand man and his firmest friend, and if the Board will sup- 

 port only one-half as earnestly and faithfully as this Society does, he 

 need only to march on to success. Then we will not have people 

 writing us from all parts of the State, from Columbia and Washington, 

 and the college also, asking what the Station has done for the Society 

 and the horticulturists of the State. 



I suppose it is not in accord with the views of the Columbia peo- 

 ple or with the University people, to criticise the management of the 

 Agricultural College or Experiment station. But it is certainly and 

 surely in accord with the views of a very great portion of the agricul- 

 turists and horticulturists of the State to do so. 



The utter disregard of the best interests of the producing class in 

 the work of both Station and College has helped to build up a very 

 strong feeling for separation from the University. 



If there is one thing that needs to be put into practical use there 

 in Columbia, it is that the control of the experiments to be carried on 

 there be put into the hands of the State Board of Agriculture. Sup- 

 pose, for instance, that this work had been with this Society, and that 

 $4000 per year had been put into their hands to use for this purpose : 

 do you think for a moment that no better results would have been 

 shown than we now see ? Where is the bulletin that should be issued 

 each three months, and where are the results from the experiments, or 

 where are the experiments themselves? Better by far put the whole 

 matter under the control of the State Board of Agriculture. Do the 

 Board of Curators fully understand the wants and aims and ends to be 

 accomplished f If they do, then they cannot but see the entire failure 

 of the Station in giving us any results of value for these many years. 

 A change, a turning upside down or inside out, a revolution, needs ta 

 be instituted, and that at once, in the Station and its management. 



