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informed that every dollar appropriated for the Federal 

 Department of Agriculture and for the State experiment 

 stations and State colleges returns to the American people, 

 or rather earns for the American people at least $20.00." 



THE NEEDS OF CUBA. 



All of this is but a prelnde to the consideraron of the 

 special needsofCuba for education in agriculture and the 

 mechanic arts. 



I ara neither making a discovery ñor divulging a se- 

 cret when I say that Cuban agriculture is in a backward 

 condition. The processes of cultivation of the soil are out of 

 date, inadequate and expensive, and the great forward mo- 

 vements of sciencie as applied to crop production which are 

 doing so much for other countries, are scarcely known here. 

 And yet this is a country that lives by its agriculture. Of its 

 one hundred million dollars of exports annualy almost the 

 whole are agricultural products. 



Cuba is the greatest cañe sugar producing country in the 

 world, and yet there is no institution for the teaching of the 

 growing and manufacture of sugar, and those who would stu- 

 dy this industry must go to Lousiania or to one of the su- 

 gar schools of Europe for their training. Her tobáceo is 

 without a rival in the markets of the world and yet there is 

 no institution where the young men may study the science 

 of this industry, the most approved methods of cultivation, 

 irrigation and manufacture. 



With commendable zeal the Cuban Goverment has esta- 

 blished an experiment station along the line of those of the 

 Unitad States, but this is not enough. An experiment station 

 is preeminently for research, and teaching is only one of its 

 incidental duties, and a college of agriculture is needed to 

 teach the results obtained not only at this station, but in 

 other like institutions of the world to the people, so that we 

 shall have an intelligent, wide-awake, and progressive farming 

 population. What the Audubon Sugar School established by 



