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work. Tliis means that some of the officers must be absent from 

 the College a good part of the time. The people are entitled to re- 

 ceive instruction on their farms and at their homes by officers of 

 experience and standing. 



I conceive that every well established department in this College 

 of Agriculture should contain at least two full professors. One 

 of these professors should be specially adapted to the local work 

 in the College itself and the other to the extension work. 

 When one is absent the other should be present, so that there is 

 always a responsible officer of high rank in residence. Of course, 

 one of the professors should be the ranking officer and be respon- 

 sible for the policy of the Department. All thoroughly good and 

 sound work must rest on fundamental study and investigation, and 

 one of the professors should represent this phase of the work. 

 Since the position of the fundamental student is less likely to be 

 safeguarded by public opinion, I should like to see the headship of 

 each department represented by a thoroughgoing investigator who 

 would himself be a student of the fundamental problems involved 

 in his subject. 



Of course, instructors and assistant professors would be needed 

 in addition in all the departments, but at least two men should 

 eventually be permanently a part of each independent department 

 in the College. 



This at once raises the question as to what the ultimate depart- 

 mental divisions in the College of Agriculture are to be. I do not 

 intend to discuss this question in detail at this time ; I wish only 

 to say that we have not yet nearly reached the ultimate depart- 

 mental divisions in this College. This is particularly apparent in 

 those departments that deal directly with the actual rearing of ani- 

 mals and growing of crops. On the one side, for example, we have 

 the two departments of " Farm Crops " and " Horticulture." These 

 names do not represent units or entities. Eventually we must have 

 departments representing such divisions as cereal-crops, hay-crops, 

 fruit-crops, flower-crops, vegetable-crops, fiber-crops, and the like. 



On the live-stock side, there should be departments of animal 

 nutrition, animal breeding, stock-farm management or some other 

 division representing the practice and business of rearing and 

 handling animals, an officer who shall devote himself largely to 

 stock-judging, and other officers who are expert in the different 

 groups or species of animals ; and in providing these departments 

 we must not overlook bee-culture, fish-culture and other branches 



