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by the law of the State, quartered in the agricultural building, 

 and because of the further fact that the two lines of work are 

 very similar, and that the Board of Agriculture and College of 

 Agriculture have been engaged in not only somewhat similar 

 work, but have been parallel and have in some small degree over- 

 lapped. I do not mean to create the impression that there is any 

 duplication in this, nor that there is any lost motion or any waste 

 effort. 



For in all the years that the Board of Agriculture has been 

 stationed with the College of Agriculture, so far as I know there 

 has been the most cordial co-operation, the most friendly relation 

 and absolutely no friction between the two bodies; and when the 

 Board of Agriculture sets out upon a certain campaign of educa- 

 tion, which might in some ways be considered the function of the 

 College of Agriculture, it has always been with the fullest and 

 fairest understanding, and with the most cordial consent. 



And then again, when the College of Agriculture should at 

 any time begin the work of exploitation, or the extension and 

 carrying on the research of some line for the improvement of agri- 

 culture, which might by some be considered a part of the work of 

 the Board of Agriculture, it has always been likewise with the 

 common consent of the other party. And so these two institutions 

 f tand here to co-operate, to support and to assist each other. 



The College of Agriculture, with its Experiment Station, de- 

 velops and discovers the facts, and the Board of Agriculture, with 

 its machinery, and with its hold upon the people, reaching down 

 to the farmers, is carrying this discovery, with its results and ap- 

 plication, to the people of the State. Thus there is no duplication, 

 there is no friction, there is no lost motion in this arrangement; 

 but it is an arrangement which permits the College of Agriculture 

 to occupy one field, primarily discovering the truth in reference 

 to practice on the one hand and on the other teaching it to the 

 students who come here; and the Board of Agriculture to occupy 

 another, that of carrying this information to the farmers direct. 



It is peculiarly appropriate in my judgment that the Board 

 of Agriculture should come here once each year and hold a con- 

 vention like this. It is also peculiarly appropriate that the farm- 

 ers should get together once a year, at least. Standing isolated, 

 as they are, they forget, if they ever fully realize, their own im- 

 portance and the importance of their profession. Getting to- 

 gether in this way, they begin to feel more proud of themselves 

 and of their profession. 



