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to do more for the promotion of their state wide interests than they do. 

 You have much to talk about, but you don't talk." 



It has been suggested that a Bureau of Publicity and Immigration 

 should be placed with some one of the state departments, possibly the 

 Department of Agriculture. As to this we have no concern. We believe 

 in publicity, and no matter where it is placed, we will be just as strong 

 and earnest in our support of it. We want most of all to have it con- 

 sidered upon its merits and not be handicapped by anyone or any de- 

 partment. The cost of such a bureau should be secondary. It should 

 not be considered as an appropriation bill, but from the standpoint of 

 usefulness and material benefit to the state in increased population and 

 farther development of her resources. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



We cannot pass over this topic without saying a word of commendation 

 upon the action of the State Board of Education in adding the two year 

 agricultural course at the Iowa State Agricultural College at Ames. It 

 has seemed to us for a long time that there was a demand, or need, for 

 a shorter course of study in the regular college work — in other words, a 

 poor boys' course. We have no doubt, as the years come and go, this 

 will prove to be the most popular course at the school. 



The filing of the report of the State Board of Education a few days 

 ago, giving the estimate of the needs of the Agricultural College for the 

 next two years, reminded me of the fact that unless their prayer for a 

 large support fund is granted the task of keeping the faculty will be 

 harder than ever. It is shameful when you think of the number of ex- 

 cellent and able young men who almost monthly resign from their posi- 

 tions at our State College to engage in more remunerative work. It is 

 not only shameful, but a disgrace to the State of Iowa, to acknowledge 

 that she cannot compete with other states, or individuals, for the talent 

 needed most at our Agricultural and Mechanical College. This, we pre- 

 sume, is equally true of the University at Iowa City and the State Nor- 

 mal School at Cedar Falls, but we speak only of the school at Ames, with 

 which we are more familiar. If the state expects only cheap instruc- 

 tors it would then be useless to increase the support fund. But I know, 

 and you know, that we expect the State Board of Education to maintain 

 the highest standard of excellence in their corps of instructors, and they 

 can only do this by having a support fund sufficient to enable them to 

 meet, at least in a measure, competition. 



The taxpayers of Iowa are not paupers and know that it takes money 

 to hire brains, and brains is what we demand of our instructors at Ames. 



STALLION REGISTRATION LAW. 



Since the enactment of this law by the Thirty-first Iowa General 

 Asembly, similar laws have been enacted by many other states. Wis- 

 consin, we believe, was the first state to enact a law requiring the issu- 

 ance of a state certificate for all stallions offered for public service. Iowa 

 next recognized the importance of such a law for the improvement of the 



