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Then again. I sav, the College and the people must go hand in hand, 

 and also add that the farm community that fails to put itself in position 

 through organization for concentrated influence and action falls far short 

 of its duty and may be justly criticised as not having a proper interest 

 in the welfare of their calling and the institutions that seek to do good 

 to the great interest of which they form a part. I am not here to press 

 upon the farmers of the State the kind of organizations they should 

 employ, but on general principles. 1 say organize, and choose the organ- 

 ization that you conclude will serve you best, and then let there be a 

 union of action between the organizations for the accomplishment of 

 results beneficial to all. 



I rejjeat that through organization and concert of action, and in no 

 other way, can the interests of agriculture and its institutions be suc- 

 cessfully maintained. 



1 am proud to stand before you as a representative of a great and in- 

 fluential farmers' organization that has always supported the Agricult- 

 ural College in all its efforts and work. In this connection it is gratify- 

 ing to note that the College has always recognized the order of the 

 Patrons of Husbandry as its friend and co-w^orker. May this mutual 

 sympathy be maintained so long as the two institutions shall exist. It 

 is gratifying to note that several important features of college work 

 have been brought about through the suggestions and solicitations of the 

 Orange; notably, the Farm Home Reading Circle, admission of girls to 

 full privileges with boys, and the establishing of an operative dairy de- 

 partment. In behalf of our organization, I thank the College authorities 

 for this privilege of being represented on this very important event. 

 May this time mark the beginning of a new^ era of great usefulness and 

 influence is our wish, and in support of which I pledge you our hearty 

 assistance. 



ADDRESS BY J. T. DAXIELS, PRESIDENT STATE ASSOCIATION 



OF FARMERS- CLUBS. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



We have met at this time to commemorate, with appropriate exercises, 

 the 40th anniversary of the opening of Michigan's State Agricultural 

 College, and it is most proper that these exercises show, by means of 

 results attained, the wisdom of establishing this institution of learning. 



This pioneer college, in its progress, has opened the way for the estab- 

 lishment of many others, and here, as in many other instances, has the 

 well known enterprise of the "Wolverines" led. 



When we consider the importance of agriculture to all of the people,, 

 of everv nation — remembering that food is vitallv essential to the con- 

 tinuancf' of human life, and that agriculture is essential to the proper 

 supply of food 7)roducts — then may we understand how beneficial to all 

 of the people are those agencies, by which and through which the science 

 of agriculture is advanced. 



It surely is unnecessary to support by argument the statement that 

 agriculture is the most ancient, ihv most universally followed and the 

 most necessary of all of the occupations followed by man. 



