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the water in the valleys will be mobilized. "When this is accomplished, 

 California will have ten millions of people in place of two and a half 

 millions. The slogan for California should not be qne million persons 

 for this or that city, depending upon which part of the State one is from, 

 but two million families for California. Cover your hills and fill up 

 your valleys with homes and the cities will take care of themselves. 



A certain rich man who made himself wealthy by mixing a well-known 

 California product with a commodity not unknown to any state and 

 selling it as a cure for various ills, purchased a considerable tract of 

 land in a state famous for the presidents which it has produced and 

 began breeding Percheron horses. This man had the money to buy 

 the best horses of the breed. He was capable of employing the most 

 expert superintendents. The soil and climate were suificiently like that 

 of "La Perche" to satisfy the requirements of horse breeding. One 

 day I chanced to meet a groomsman who declared that the enterprise was 

 doomed to failure. "Why?" he was asked. "Because the Percheron 

 horse is the result of loving care by generations of farmers. Mr. Blank, 

 with all his millions, cannot purchase these generations of men without 

 whom these horses are not possible." Our rich friend still operates his 

 land, but he has long since ceased to try to breed horses. 



California has rich river valleys whose conditions are like those 

 which generations of Holland farmers have made famous. Canada has 

 its agents in the lowlands inducing the Holland farmers to migrate to 

 this northern country, while our river valleys with their mild climate 

 remain undeveloped. To develop this State with the least human sac- 

 rifice some selective process of locating people upon the land is needed. 

 It is said that the farmers in the countries bordering upon the Mediter- 

 ranean Sea are now saving their money against the time of the opening 

 of the Panama Canal. When the thrifty Mediterranean folk come 

 to our shore it will be the first time in the history of the world that 

 these races have migrated to a country which was similar in its possi- 

 bilities to their own. To entice these people upon land by means of 

 "decoys" would be a social and economic crime. We need to study 

 the history and adaptation of the peoples who now live in regions with 

 natural conditions similar to our own. Instead of alluring the off- 

 scourings we should by some selective process secure the intelligent, 

 thrifty, moral countryman whose generations of experience will help 

 to develop this country. When he arrives he should be located among 

 natural conditions with which he has been familiar and protected until 

 he has his industry upon its feet. It would be a form of protection that 

 would protect. If you wish to compete with the peoples of the world 

 you must develop in every locality that industry which naturally does 

 best in that particular region, and you must put it in the hands of 

 people who are the most expert in that particular industry. By no other 

 process can a state be developed to its highest efficiency. 



The president and board of regents will be asked to establish a 

 department in the College of Agriculture, to be known as the Depart- 



