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of experts while these data are being worked out in turn. This ap- 

 paratus cost over |10,000 to install. In order to utilize it to the best 

 advantage and enable it to produce the best results, it needs to be 

 worked all the time. Who of you would run a flouring mill three 

 days, then stop for two months, and then start it up again for three 

 days, and so on? It would not be likely to prove a very profitable 

 enterprise. That it may be kept going continually is the first reason 

 why the institute of animal nutrition needs a large amount of money. 

 The second is that the men in charge of it must be experts, and men 

 whose word can never be questioned. They must be capable, honest, 

 and truthful, on whose word you can spend ten or fifteen or twenty 

 thousand dollars, and know that it is safely invested. Such men 

 are expensive. Their services are in demand in other States and to 

 secure them and retain them suitable salaries must be paid. 



There is another phase of the agricultural education question that 

 has recently become prominent in this country and that will need 

 your aid and best skill to properly develop. The estimated num- 

 ber of children in Pennsylvania between the years of 5 and 18 in 

 1907 was 1,865,832. Fully 20 per cent, of these are in the rural dis- 

 tri':(:s amounting to 373,166. They all need education. A large pro 

 portion need agricultural education and many others need this same 

 thing who are in the towns and cities of the State. Several hundred 

 thousand would be greatly benefitted if they could take an agricul- 

 tural college course. They need this course in the new education 

 SIS an investment with which to start out in life. They can't all go 

 to college. Then what? If they can not come to the college, we 

 must take the information out to them. The time is coming when 

 this college instruction in agriculture will be carried right out to 

 She young people in their own communities; this movement has al- 

 ready started in some states, and Mr. Martin, your State Director, 

 has started it here — the movable school of agriculture. I hope you 

 will give him your most cordial support. He will make mistakes; 

 we all make mistakes, but if we profit by them, after awhile the 

 thing we want will be worked out, and the time we are looking for, 

 and hoping for, will come. Possibly not in our day, but the time 

 will come when all of our sons and danj^liters who enter the ordinary 

 country schools will get instruction in agriculture there, and later 

 will receive additional training in this science in the high school and 

 in the movable school that will come to their very doors. Some of 

 as will not see it except by faith. We know that it must come. We 

 know that country people need instruction of this special kind, and 

 we know, too, that when the need exists it will eventually be sup- 

 plied. The time is coming also and it is not very far away, when 

 we will send experts out over the country to teach men how to 

 grow forty or fifty bushels of wheat to the acre, and instead of twen- 

 ty-eight bushels of corn, they will show them how to grow sixty, 

 seventy, eighty, ninety, and a hundred bushels to the acre. The 

 primary requisite in accomplishing any thing is to know how. It 

 is only then that we obtain results. You started more than thirty 

 years ago to teach agricultural people how to increase their crops. 

 I wish you could live for a thousand years to come, for you are just 

 beginning to understand your work. This long life is denied us here, 

 but you will no doubt look down from the other side, and see many 

 of the things you have hoped and worked for consummated by those 

 who follow you, who will take up and carry on your work. 



