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to be done in these directions those institutions should be encouraged 

 to do, to the end that agriculture and agricultural students may have 

 the services of as thoroughly organized and equipped institutions of 

 collegiate grade as are j^rovided for any other branch of science or 

 industry. 



Agriculture is a broad and complex subject. The persons needing 

 agricultural instruction are very numerous and diverse. A proper 

 American system of agricultural education will include many grades 

 and kinds of instruction and different classes of institutions. But 

 above everything else American agriculture needs broad and strong 

 institutions of higher education in agriculture, in which the leaders 

 of agricultural progress may be trained. We should, then, go on as 

 fast as possible in building and strengthening at least one agricul- 

 tural college in every State and Territory, making it in every respect 

 a genuine and thoroughgoing institution of collegiate grade. At the 

 same time provision should be made for agricultural schools and 

 courses to meet the needs of the masses of our agricultural people. 

 We have the means to do all of these things, and the future welfare 

 of our countr}' demands that we do them promptly. 



