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FARM MANAGEMENT. 



(Professor J. W. Sanborn. Gilmanton, N. H.) 



(Professor Sanborn was for several years Dean of Missouri Agricultural College and Secre- 

 tary State Board of Agriculture, and during that time inaugurated some of the most important 

 lines of investigations that have been carried out in Missouri.) 



I left my home in the hills of New Hampshire to make a round 

 trip of about 3,000 miles for the purpose of renewing old acquaint- 

 ances, and for one brief hour as the guest of the Board of Agricul- 

 ture, to renew, in a measure, semi-official relations with the farmers 

 of Missouri. It is a great pleasure to me, not only to visit these 

 scenes of past labor, and to meet with old friends, but it is also 

 a pleasure to me to listen to the able speakers who have come here 

 to discuss the larger issues of the hour. I am very much obliged 

 to your Secretary for his kind invitation to come here, for the kind 

 words of introduction he gave me, and for your kind reception. 

 I should not be true to my feelings and, it seems to me to my obli- 

 gations as a former secretary of this Board and Dean of your Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, did I not express my gratification at the great 

 expansion of the field of usefulness occupied by the Board of Agri- 

 culture through the industry and organizing capacity of its Secre- 

 tary ahd the broad policy of the legislators. A record has been 

 made creditable to him and to the State. I should not do justice to 

 myself and to the occasion did I not express my great pleasure in 

 the work being done by Dean Waters, in whom I take some pride 

 as a former student in my classes. I have been with him over much 

 of the work he is doing, and the work he proposes to do. Dean 

 Waters is looking underneath the surface of things. He is doing 

 some deep thinking, which bye and bye will have concrete expres- 

 sion and add to the future welfare of the agriculture of Missouri 

 and of the nation, and his work as an organizer and investigator 

 will have a marked influence in the development of this Agricul- 

 tural College and the art of agriculture. All great people rest 

 upon intellectual development, and the efforts of your Dean and 

 your Secretary and other public-spirited men to expand your agri- 

 cultural educational interests beginning with the primary schools, 

 passing to the secondary schools, and then to the Agricultural De- 

 partment of the State University, can not be too highly commended 

 as the cornerstone of a co-ordinated system of agricultural educa- 

 tion. I note that you have the work of primary and secondary agri- 

 cultural education, not only in contemplation, but already in motion. 



