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would stand on an equal footing, no matter from 

 what school they come. As to private fitting 

 schools, perhaps there is no better way than for 

 the college to inspect them and then place them 

 on the accepted or non-accepted list. 



In such a system, the agricultural academies 

 should be under the control of a Board composed 

 of the faculty of the State Agricultural College 

 and the principals of the agricultural schools ; who 

 should have the power to formulate rules for 

 entrance, courses of study and practice and deter- 

 mine the kind and amount of work which would 

 be received at the college towards fulfilling the 

 requirements for entrance and for graduation. 

 The academies might I think should require 

 the payment of a small tuition fee; for if the 

 academy lays as much stress on the art of farm- 

 ing as it should, it will be very expensive if the 

 number of students is restricted as it should be. 



The fact is, we are still laying the stress on 

 numbers instead of on efficient instruction. 

 " Walks and Talks," such as I gave forty years 

 ago at the Iowa College and later at Cornell 

 are useful but they are only second-hand work; 

 and no teacher can successfully handle more than 

 half a score of students at a time when it comes 



