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mation; they were g-etting information that was of value; and it 

 \\ent on that way, until we put five men every year on every 

 force; five forces of men from the State College and Experi- 

 ment Station. What happened? Why, two years ago, thir- 

 teen of the grange alliances met at the State College in conven- 

 tion and agreed they w^ould go before the legislature and ask for 

 a building for that institution for $100,000. It went into the 

 committee of the house, but the chairman happened to be op- 

 posed to the college, and so it didn't come out of the committee 

 until very near the close of the session, when the House agreed 

 they would bring it out for consideration. The committee got 

 wind of it and reported it with a negative recommendation, 

 in which event it took two thirds of a vote to pass, and they 

 didn't have the vote. What did they say ? They said : you can 

 pass no more legislation from this on. The University of Penn- 

 sylvania came up for $50,000; they knocked it out. The result 

 was they had to adjourn; and then they asked: What do you 

 want? These gentlemen said: We want the State College bill 

 ernor vetoed it, and then two years passed, when they went in 

 put back and passed. It was put back and passed. The Gov- 

 for $200.000 — we are going to dedicate one of them the eighth 

 of January. These people got this appropriation by simply go- 

 ing to the Agricultural College and Experiment Station and 

 getting men to go out among the farming people to teach them 

 what they knew. That is the right way. I believe, if these 

 agricultural colleges and experiment stations become favorably 

 known throughout their own State, they become serviceable to 

 the people. The trouble is, we are putting out very valuable 

 1)ulletins to our farmers and they do not read them; they get 

 tired of test work. What we are trying to do now, is to get 

 men who do read them and go out and tell in a few words what 

 is of service to you and me, and in that way we get it. 



Down at W^ashington in this great department, there are 

 four thousand two hundred men in connection with it. Secre- 

 tary Wilson is at the head of one of the greatest educational in- 

 stitutions — he is one of the greatest men — he has done more for 

 agriculture than any other man I know of that has ever been 

 in our country. Last year over nine hundred publications went 

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