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Dr. Win. C. Stubbs in Louisiana in 1891 has done for the 

 sugar industry of Louisiana could be done by a sngar school 

 or agricultnral college teaching the agriculture and manufac- 

 ture of sugar for the sugar industty of Cuba. 



What has been done for the agriculture of the various 

 States of America by the agricultural colleges, could be done 

 for Cuba by an agricultural college established on modern 

 and progressive lines. 



Cuba owes it not only to herself as an indepedent nation, 

 but she owes it to her young metí that they be given the op- 

 portunity to fit themselves to occupy the more responsible 

 positions on the plantations and in the factories. The Esta- 

 ción Central Agronómica recently liad a number of positions 

 vacant in the staíF of experts, and it was necessary to go to 

 the United States to find metí who by their training and 

 experience were ftted to occupy these positions. This should 

 not be. There should be an institution here training metí 

 for these positions, — raen who by their birth, their acquain- 

 tance with the country and its people should be specifically 

 prepared for these positions of responsibility. 



The Experiment Station is doing a great deal of scienti- 

 fic work in discovering the best methods of growing sugar, 

 tobáceo, and the other crops upon which the wealth of Cuba 

 is founded, and of bringiugback to fertility and usefulness the 

 oíd worn 011 1 lands of which there is such an abundance. 

 I speak from a feeling of personal need, when I say that our 

 greatest discouragement is not from any lack of good results 

 of our experiments, but from a lack of an institution that will 

 carry our work to the people, and from the abscence of a 

 community educated in the science of agriculture who will 

 take our results and apply thein in the field. 



Between the Experiment Station and the Cuban people 

 there is a missing link, and to my mind this can be supplied 

 only in sotne such way as is here indicated. 



With an agricultural college well established there would 

 be at least a few men in every community educated in the 



