354 Journal of Agriculture, Victoria. [10 June, 1918. 



SUMMARY. 



I asked Dean Hunt what he considered would be the future for 

 agricultural education in California. He said that by 1922 he con- 

 sidered there would be 40 counties in the State, comprising practically 

 all the farming area of California, with county advisor systems; there 

 would be 400 bureau centres, with perhaps a membership of 20,000 

 farmers. Probably 100 of these farm bureaux would hold their meet- 

 ings monthly in high school buildings, having present both the farm 

 advisor and the principal of the high school, each an agriculturally 

 trained man. 



Two hundred high schools will have boys' agricultural clubs, in 

 which 2,000 boys will actually raise some crop or animals under the 

 supervision of the College of Agriculture. Each of these high schools 

 will have a teacher of agriculture, who, instead of being an itinerant, 

 will live in and work with that community, not only through the pupils 

 of his own school, but also by organizing and supervising boys' clubs 

 in the public schools of his particular territory. 



Several thousand mature person, realizing that, to be effective, the 

 educational process must be continuous, will be pursuing correspondence 

 courses in agriculture. As the reading becomes more universal, and 

 accurate information becomes more available, the daily and weekly 

 papers will give greater space to agriculture, while books, circulars, 

 technical journals, and reports on agricultural subjects will become 

 a recognised part of every farmer's equipment. 



He considered, too, that the College of Agriculture at Berkeley 

 would have 1,000 regular students on its rolls. 



At Davis he expected to see 500 farm school students., and another 

 500 taking short courses in agriculture. 



At Kearney Park he hoped to have an organization that would give 

 200 students a real experience of farm life. 



The Agricultural Experiment Station would grow to larger propor- 

 tions, and become more specialized in its activity. Several hundred 

 trained men would be working at this institution, delving after the 

 truth in order that exact and accurate knowledge of agriculture may be 

 obtained before it is passed on to the extension division to be broadcasted 

 over the land. 



The remarkable progress of Berkeley to-day is possible, because 

 the pioneers who have gone before — Hilgard, Wickson, and others — 

 have devoted their lives to discovering and classifying facts and know- 

 ledge upon which the superstructure of modern agriculture and horti- 

 culture rests. Little wonder that the grateful people of California 

 have voted $350,000 to keep green the memory of their greatest 

 scientist — Hilgard — the man who laid the foundations of scientific agri- 

 culture in California, and that his devotion to his work and the untiring 

 efforts of his colleagues have made possible the present spectacular pro- 

 gress of Californian agriculture. 



" Don't forget," says Dean Hunt, " to dig well the foundations for 

 agricultural research, for without patient research, working over years, 

 the basis for future development and progress cannot be laid." 



Surely, in California's record, there is a message for Victoria. 



