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meiit of New Agricultural Industries. Already the United States 

 Department of Agriculture and the State Experiment Stations have 

 done splendid work in plant introduction. The introduction of a plant 

 and the establishment of an industry upon that plant however are two 

 widely different things. This department of New Agricultural Indus- 

 tries will not be a research nor a teaching department in the ordinary 

 sense of the term. Its duty will be to study the agricultural industries 

 of regions having conditions similar to California and to study our own 

 State with reference to any industries which investigation may seem 

 desirable to transplant. Last week we were told that Palestine is an 

 exact counterpart of California, except that Palestine is only one tenth 

 the size. Within this diminutive area, it duplicates the Sacramento 

 and San Joaquin valleys, the valleys of the coast and the Sierra Nevada 

 and Coast ranges. There is the same variation in climatic conditions, 

 and above all they have a four thousand year old agriculture. No one 

 knows what agricultural lessons this old world holds in store for us. 

 Perhaps it may yet enable us to become the greater Palestine of a new 

 civilization. 



We have been discussing a century long program and a state-wide 

 movement. Every man and woman in this audience will have been 

 gathered in by Father Time long before our water supply has been fully 

 stabilized and our labor supply fully humanized. We are not now 

 dealing with the individual, but with society. If society is not able to 

 look beyond the confines of its individual members it is doomed to eternal 

 damnation. 



It may have occurred to some of you that the questions which have 

 been discussed are beyond the realm of the institution which I for the 

 moment represent. What has been said is for the purpose of emphasiz- 

 ing the fact that the University of California is perforce the leader 

 of thought in all that relates to the welfare of the State, and its College 

 of Agriculture, if it is to be effective, must be the leader in all that 

 relates to the development of agriculture. To fail to accept such leader- 

 ship would be to fail to understand the responsibility that is placed 

 upon it. Any other attitude upon the part of the people, whose child 

 the institution is, would be reprehensible. 



Pedagogically speaking — I use that phrase because I do not know 

 what it means — the College of Agriculture has two ambitions : one is 

 to become the post-graduate institution in agriculture for the western 

 third of the United States, and the other is to supply the demand in 

 California for teachers of agriculture in the secondary schools. To 

 receive the agricultural graduates of the western third of the United 

 States and train them for greater service in the institutions from which 

 they came, is not only a privilege but a responsibility and one which 

 every other institution will welcome. If this institution assists in the 

 preparation of the future instructors and investigators of our western 

 colleges and prepares the teachers of agriculture for the high schools 

 of. California, it will be performing a service of untold value. The 



