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do it. The farmers of this country are bent on good secondary 

 education that will fit for country life, and if they are obliged to 

 found a new system of schools to get it, then they will do that and 

 insist upon a fair division of the revenues. 



Let me be not misunderstood. It is not upon an endowed in- 

 stitution to teach agriculture, unless it chooses to do so; unless it 

 sees in the subject large educative possibilities within the chosen 

 line of its activities, and for which it is endowed. 



It is different with the high school. This is a public school, 

 supported by public funds, and its obligation is to serve the public 

 well in all its interests — to put its service on the same plan as that 

 of the state colleges and universities, and the temper of the public 

 mind is such as to force the issue, if necessary. If it becomes 

 necessary to found a separate system of schools to do this work it 

 will be the worse for all of us and the better for none. If we go 

 on together and our high schools serve agriculture and her people 

 as faithfully and as well as they serve others, then all will be well. 



This, then, is the place of agriculture in our scheme of educa- 

 tion — that it shall become an integral part of our educational sys- 

 tem, to the end that all great interests shall be served equally well 

 by a single comprehensive system of schools ; and the next step is to 

 see to it that agriculture shall attain the same important and 

 honorable place in our high schools that it has already attained in 

 our universities. 



RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE IMPROVED LIVE STOCK 

 BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION, JANUARY 9, 1908. 



Your committee begs leave to submit the following resolutions 

 to the Allied Breeders' Associations here assembled : 



1. That this Association commends the excellent work being 

 done by the Department of Home Economics of the University, and 

 earnestly recommends to the Board of Curators and to the Mis- 

 souri Legislature the appropriation of sufficient funds for the con- 

 struction and equipment of a suitable building for the Department 

 of Home Economics. 



2. That the Legislature make the necessary appropriation 

 for the establishment of a school of agriculture at the University 

 to which young men may »be admitted directly from the country 

 schools. 



