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largest professional school in the University, and is second only to the 

 College of Arts in the numhcr of students AvliicU it enrolls. If we in- 

 clude those enrolled in the Farmers' Short Course, the College of Agri- 

 culture has given instruction in agriculture to 2,100 persons during the 

 current year. Of this number more than 1,700 will manage or perform 

 labor on jMissouri farms in 1911. The College is doing its full share in 

 redirecting the trend of population to the open country. It is not true 

 that the College of Agriculture is educating men away from the farm. 

 It is hardly necessary for me to say to you, moreover, that we are glad to 

 have you here because we feel that we have accomplished a few things 

 during the past year that meet with your approval. The remarkable 

 development of the cows in our dairy department is a matter familiar 

 to all of you, and it is with some pride that we point to the fact that 

 in an agricultural college organized for the promotion of teaching agri- 

 culture we have been able also to produce in Missouri Chief Josephine, 

 the best cow that the world has so far known. 



I am also pleased at this time to be able to call your attention to the 

 remarkable victory of our judging team in Chicago — a victory not only 

 for the College of Agriculture, but for your sons, because these boys rep- 

 resent widely separated districts in Missouri. * 



The limits of our time this morning forbid me any extended dis- 

 cussion of the College of Agriculture and its significance as an educa- 

 tional institution, but you will perhaps permit me to say that the agricul- 

 tural colleges of this country represent a most remarkable educational 

 achievement. I think it is correct to say that no type of education has 

 ever succeeded in organizing in so short a time such a body of systematic 

 facts and developing a course of instruction so efficient and so popular 

 among its patrons. 



To my mind, there are very good reasons for this'development. The 

 agricultural colleges have always recognized the fact that fundamental 

 to instruction was the acquisition of knowledge, and hand in hand with 

 the instruction has been carried on the work of the Experiment Station. 

 Fundamental research has been co-extensive with good teaching. The 

 Agricultural College has started out to investigate problems of the farm, 

 then to solve them, and then to teach the results of those experiments. 



But the College of Agriculture has not been satisfied to teach at the 

 College and to investigate at the College. Agricultural colleges, more 

 than any other organized educational institutions, have felt the need 

 of the extension of the knowledge acquired to the people themselves ; and 

 I want to say to you that the enrollment of 675 students in the Agricul- 

 tural College does not represent the enrollment of students in the Mis- 



