No. 7. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL.TTJRE. 



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people, as it does now, and let the value of agricultural education, 

 and the results of agricultural investigation, be placed before them 

 by the College and Experiment Station. The cost of this work 

 should not be great. The interpretations and the results should 

 be secured anyhow, and the photographs and the men to elucidate 

 them should not be expensive. Such work is a link between the 

 people and the agricultural educational insdtutions which must 

 benefit both parties directly and indirectly. In the same line is 

 demonstration work, especially of such processes as in dairying 

 which can be completed in a short time and the results known. All 

 these lecturers and demonstrators can be legitimately used to 

 bring men under the influence of the educational institution either 

 in their ever^'-day work or by actual attendance upon it. Such a 

 connection between the College of Agriculture and the public is 

 one of the first and greatest necessities in this State. 



EXHIBITIONS. 



Some years ago I looked upon the exhibition of the Ohio Experi- 

 ment Station at the Ohio State Fair. I had to look for it in those 

 days, and so did everybody else. Cut so many people found it 

 and asked so many questions of the men in charge each year that 

 the Experiment Station resolved to make a bigger show next 

 year. Interest in this exhibit has so increased that the Station has 

 now so much space in Horticultural Hall that other exhibitors are 

 beginning to accuse it of monopoly. The people of Ohio are now 

 asking, and no doubt will receive, an appropriation for a building 

 on their State Fair Grounds for the special purpose of allowing 

 the Experiment Station to bring before them smue of the results 

 secured in their investigations. I do not advocate a State Fair in 

 Pennsylvania simjjly because wc have no State Fair; but right 

 here is seen the great need of one. And it should be demanded 

 by the people of Pennsylvania for this reason as well as for many 

 others. This State can afford millions for adornment and not a 

 sou for a State Fair, which would be a profitable investment finan- 

 cially as well as otherwise. Let me read you a few extracts from 

 letters which have been received in the past few days, and then you 

 can see how thousands of farmers are reached in other states. We 

 should be reaching them in the same way: 



"Michigan Experiment Station, 

 "C D. Smith, Director. "Agricultural College, Mich., 



"Jan. 12, 1907. 



"E. S. Bayard: 



"Dear Sir: Our station exhibit has been carried forward at the state fair for 

 niiany years. During the season of 1906 we made a special effort, through a 

 special' appropriation from the state. Outside of this special appropriation, the 

 Experiment Station on its own initiative, made an exhibit at Detroit at the main 

 state fair and at Grand Rapids at the West Michigan Fair. This exhibit con- 

 sisted of about half an acre of ground planted to the cereals of economic im- 

 portance or of supposed economic importance. For instance, any of the cereals 

 that were unusual, or with which the farmers were not familiar, were planted 

 there, like the pennisetums or the kaffir corn or some of the newer millets. So 

 in the legumes we had rows of soy beans, of different types of cowpeas. Blac 

 Murarau, and so down the whole line of legumes we tried to have representatives 

 at the fair. * * * * I am here to report that the exhibit attracted a great 

 deal of favorable comment and attention. It will be repeated on a larger scale 

 next year. 



