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close interrelation of the apricot flora with climate, he would be 

 entering the field of real research." 



Research depends on the intention and method of the work, and 

 specially on the capacity of the man who undertakes it. Its intention 

 is to go to the bottom. It requires a research type of mind ; " few per- 

 sons are capable of projecting and completing real investigational 

 work,'' hence men must be selected who have the special aptitude and 

 qualification for it. It is futile to attempt to exact it of all men. ' 



Professor Bailey expressed the belief that on the research side the 

 horticulturists in the colleges and stations are not making great head- 

 way, and that few new men are being turned out who promise to meet 

 the coming problems. The reason for this condition was assigned very 

 largely to improper or inefficient organization and plan. " Horticul- 

 turists are forced to cover too much ground," he said, " and neces- 

 sarily they cover some of it very thin. The work is not sufficiently 

 specialized. There is the same need that horticulturists become par- 

 ticularists as that other college officers become unquestioned authori- 

 ties in particular subjects. ... If the subjects that we class with 

 horticulture had been wholly unrecognized until this time, it is in- 

 conceivable that they would now be organized under the present 

 form." 



He urged differentiation in function and specialization in horticul- 

 ture, and pointed out that the horticulturists should themselves be 

 actively preparing a reconstructive movement. 



In regard to the kind of men needed for the college and station 

 work, Professor Bailey laid great stress on the development of the 

 point of view and the scientific spirit, and upon the necessity for 

 graduate work. In this he drew upon his address given before the 

 Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta- 

 tions, at Portland, the past summer. He urged that the colleges must 

 not only train farmers but must train the trainers of farmers; they 

 thus have a double work to perform. " The college that makes no 

 adequate distinction between these two lines of service ought not to 

 undertake to train men for the best leadership, or to expect that even 

 the best men from the graduating classes will be fitted for it." 



The point was made that the college that trains a man inoculates 

 the spirit into him. " No person is prepared for college and station 

 work who does not possess the scientific spirit. . . . The point of view 

 is the first consideration ; the curriculum is one of the means of work- 

 ing it out." The type of mind determines the man's attitude toward 

 a problem. " The attitude of the young man toward his w^ork is just 

 as important as the work itself; and for this attitude his instructors 

 are in large degree responsible." 



" Because a man has graduated from a college of agriculture it does 

 not follow that he is fitted for a position in a college of agriculture. 



