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its agriculture. The offerings must be largely in agricultural 

 technique. The equipment should be even larger in fields and 

 barns and herds, than in libraries and laboratories, because the 

 student should have a reasonable English education before he 

 goes to college, and because when an agricultural college has 

 the large advantage of being a college in a university, it may 

 count much upon the privileges which are common to all. By 

 the time one who is to live on a farm goes away from home 

 to an agricultural college, it is time he was given his fill of 

 agricultural instruction that is actual and real. But a real col- 

 lege, properly sustained by the schools below, will gather stu- 

 dents who can matriculate and thus make an impression upon 

 the State which will endure. The State Agricultural College 

 must be sensitive to rational and responsible agricultural initia- 

 tive. It must not only train men to manage farms, but it must 

 train teachers for agricultural work in schools below. It must 

 be scholarly, but it must be as democratic as it is scholarly. 

 There are people who think that impossible. Therein lies the 

 difference between the old academic scholarship and the newer 

 industrial scholarship. Other states have found that difference 

 and reckoned with it more than once. We can beat them all if 

 we will. The State Agricultural College must not only be sensi- 

 tive to the initiative of others; it must have an initiative of its 

 own. It must find out the things which New York agriculture 

 needs to have done and go right ahead doing them, knowing 

 that if they work it will get the glory, and if they fail it will be 

 damned for it. Teaching and research must go together. They 

 always help one another. 



" We should enter upon a great system of agricultural exten- 

 sion. The schools, from the highest to lowest, should act in 

 accord, not only in training students and in scientific research, 

 but in carrying knowledge to the very doors of the farmers. 

 Evangelistic work in agriculture should go everywhere. Seed 

 specials should be run over the railroads. The blood of the 

 best farm animals should be distributed throughout the State. 

 Object lessons of special interest to both men and women 

 should be carried in all directions. The applications should be 

 especially adapted to every section, and the fullest attention 

 should be given to the lest favored rather than to the more 

 favored counties of the State." 



All the varieties of work described by Commissioner Draper 



