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Often on suggesting- Ihe addition of one simple element to 

 the soil, it wouid grow certain crops to the perfection of olden 

 times. At other times, with other crops, the results were not 

 so satisfactory, and it was in time found that the wisdom of 

 the chemist could not always unlock nature's secrets ; this led 

 to cooperative experiments between the tiller of the soil, and 

 the man in the laboratory. Thus from a small beginning arose 

 the necessity for specialized scientific investigation ; a fact 

 quickly recognized by some of our colleges, and to a limited 

 extent by the farmers. 



The demand for this broader education by our farmers, met 

 ^yith munificent provisions for agricultural colleges by the 

 Federal Government and has grown to such an extent that most of 

 our States and Territories now have well equipped colleges ; 

 but I am sorry to say that in some instances, sufficient promi- 

 nence has not been given to the agricultural features in the 

 truest sense, and in other instances, the farmers have been 

 slow to recognize the irriportance of the training to be obtained 

 at these institutions by their children. 



The founding of such an institution as the proposed Agricul- 

 tural College of Hawaii, should be one of the most marked 

 forward movements in the development of diversified agricul- 

 ture in these Islands, that has ever been taken. On account 

 of our unique location, I predict that it will become, within 

 the life time of most of its first Board of Regents, one of the 

 important agricultural institutions of the United States ; when 

 students from the mainland and from foreign countries will 

 be interested, seeking to enter its portals. 



There never has been a time when tropical agriculture at- 

 tracted so much attention as at present. We have here a 

 virgin field for investigation, with ideal climatic and other 

 conditions for founding an institution for the study of all that 

 pertains to tropical agriculture. There is no place in the world 

 so well suited for tlie work which we should take up, as Ho- 

 nolulu. 



It should be the aim of this institution to equip our young 

 men and women with a practical, scientific education that will 

 enable them to go upon our hill sides and plains ancf make 

 them produce to the highest perfection, the various tropical 

 fruits and other products for which these Islands will surely 

 become noted ; they should not onlv be taught the theory of 

 agriculture in all its branches, but they must learn the prac- 

 tical application of the knowledge gained for the benefit of 

 their vocation. 



Above all they should be taught the honor, glory and dig- 

 nity of being able to win a competency from the soil, under 

 adverse, as well as favorable conditions; they should be able 

 to look back in their mature 3^ears and say. "I owe whatever 

 success I have attained in my calling to the instruction and 



