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portion of their iiiiieritauce and the imnihle assurance that it will 

 be granted without question. This was demonstrated most ad- 

 mirably in the passing of the bill by our last Legislature granting 

 the appropriation for the agricultural building at our State Col- 

 lege. NVheu the Allied Agricultural Associations put their shoulder 

 to the wheel the van moved, and it will move again whenever the 

 farmers of the State find necessity for it. This is not the time nor 

 place to halt. With each point gained there is an obligation at- 

 tached — a debt incurred. Everytime we reach out we gather up a 

 load. This being true, it is intensely important that we make no 

 mistake iu our movements. We must have an ads'ance guard— a 

 pilot. Just as our financiers look to Wall Street to list the ''di- 

 gested" and ''undigested" securities and pay well for services, so 

 can and should our farmers look to our State College and Experi- 

 ment Station for aid and counsel and give them their undivided sup- 

 [)Ort in return. 



Perhaps nothing has been more gratifying to those of us Vv'ho have 

 been attending the meetings of the State Board for years past than 

 the steady development 'of sentiment on the part of its members in 

 favor of a closer relation to our State College. That such a condi- 

 tion would prove mutually profitable has been apparent to many and 

 that every test has proven a success must certainly be an inspiration 

 to those undecided. The action taken on the several subjects in 

 tlr"s relation at this meeting, inspires the belief that we have all been 

 giving thought to the methods to be employed to secure the most 

 good for the future and have unanimously decided that by making 

 '■;\ long i)iill and a strong pull, and a pull all together" much good 

 w ill surely accrue to the cause of agriculture in our State. 



When we listened to our old leader, Prof. John Hamilton, tlie In- 

 stitute Specialist of the United States, and heard his report of the 

 work done in agricultural education in Canada and the ^^ Cst and 

 (he great good that was being accomplished by the up-to-date 

 uK'thods they employed, we all experienced a feeling of glad satis- 

 faction that we had received instruction and training from one so 

 able and willing and interested, and that he was still one of us, just 

 as interested and willing and much more able to help than while 

 his efforts and talents were limited to the confines of our Common- 

 wealth. His reports should stimulate and ins])ire us to emulate 

 our neighbors and fill us with a determination to place our work on 

 an equality, at least, with that of any state in the Union. It can be 

 done. \\"i\\ we do it? I believe we will if we have the x>i'oper sup- 

 port. 



Our Farmers' Institute work has permeated the length and 

 breadth of our Commonwealth and carried untold blessings to thou- 

 sands of homes. The methods adopted, originally, have served their 



