No. 6. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 203 



ainples of observation that I could possibly state. Jones was an 

 observing man, knowing there w T as no 'possum in that tree, his ob- 

 ject was to discover what Sam had seen which he imagined to be a 

 'possum. 



DEPUTY SECRETARY MARTIN. Old Sam represents the old 

 farmer then. 



PROF. JOHNSON: So be careful when you load your gun and 

 be sure that your game is always in sight and don't let the other 

 fellow deceive you. 



MR. MARTIN: As I cast my eye over this audience I see over 

 here on the left a representative, in a certain way, of Pennsylvania's 

 favorite agricultural paper entitled, The National Stockman and 

 Farmer, Mr. Alva Agee. He needs no introduction in Pennsylvania. 

 He is well known in the farmer's family in this State. Will Mr. 

 Agee please come forward and make some remarks. 



MR. AGEE: Mr. Chairman, I do not feel that I am a stranger 

 in this meeting. I recall the fact that ten or twelve years have 

 passed since I first met very many of you in this room. I thought 

 that last night as I passed in the rear of the audience and noted your 

 appearance that 1 could discover that the marks of time began to 

 show and yet after all, I see very little change. I am glad, friends, 

 and I congratulate Pennsylvania, that we have a Director of Insti- 

 tutes here who stands in the front rank of institute directors for 

 providing a meeting of this sort, in giving to us a Normal Institute 

 that will prepare us for the work that we have to do. Only recently 

 have I realized fully that the science of agriculture is a new thing; 

 that within the last twenty-five years there has grown up what may 

 be truly regarded as a science connected with the art of agriculture, 

 and I am delighted that I am living and that we are living in that day 

 when you and I have the privilege of helping to carry to our co- 

 workers on the farm these new facts. The work of an institute di- 

 rector, the work of an institute lecturer I mean, is made better 

 through these normal meetings; and the work of the agricultural 

 press of to day has greater influence than it will have at any future 

 time in scientific agriculture because we are teaching men who can 

 heartily appreciate it that there is a science of agriculture that is of 

 the greatest importance to us. Why, thirty-five years ago this State 

 had not got to work; these facts had not been developed, and now we 

 stand in a way, if we can assume to say it, we stand in a way between 

 the ultra-scientist, the man in his laboratory, and that one who has 

 not the time that we are taking for the study of the results of 

 science. It is our business to study these results and see where they 

 apply to our field; how the man who must have a dollar in this world 



