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Station and that arose when the State Station made 

 a demand for a part of our annual Federal appro- 

 priation of $15,000 in order that the State Station 

 might secure thereby, the franking privilege for 

 their bulletins. The matter was finally amicably 

 adjusted by a legal enactment which gave to the 

 State Station 10 per cent, of our appropriation 

 fifteen hundred dollars annually thus permitting 

 it to send out printed mail free of postage. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 



In the seventies it was generally believed that 

 an agricultural college could not be successfully 

 grafted on to a university and the evidence 

 seemed to prove it; but when I looked at all sides 

 of the question I was convinced that a college of 

 agriculture could never take a dignified place in 

 the world of higher education unless its entrance 

 requirements and its courses of study were made 

 equal in length and in severity though not 

 necessarily the same in kind to those prevailing 

 in the colleges of Science and of the Arts. As yet 

 the agricultural colleges made no such require- 

 ments and were not likely to for many years to 

 come. 



