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this singular contrast with other sections of the State is discovered 

 in the location at Ithaca of one of the United States government 

 agricultural experiment stations. To quote from Mr. Kjel- 

 gaard's report: "All are agreed that the station is a help to 

 them, and the entire conditions here are different. Not only this, 

 but I find that the indirect influence of these institutions was 

 greater even than the direct. I also found that not only in the 

 vicinity of Ithaca, but one hundred miles away, a man who had 

 taken a course of agricultural training at Cornell University was 

 carrying the benefits of his knowledge into his neighborhood. 

 His neighbors, seeing how superior his methods are to theirs, are 

 quick to profit by it. This led to the investigation as to whether 

 the same condition prevailed in the vicinity of other agricultural 

 colleges and government stations. The inquiry proved that they 

 are all bearing excellent fruit." 



When I look around among our graduates, our alumni, 

 and sec the situations they are occupying, not only in this 

 State, but throughout the country, as has already been 

 said, as college presidents, as college professors, directors 

 of stations, as assistant directors, as superintendents of 

 farms, as farmers, as veterinarians, as chairman of the 

 rattle commission, as instructor in Harvard University and 

 in Yale, — I am not ashamed of what the college has done 

 or the influence it has exerted. Twenty-seven years has 

 been my apprenticeship at the college, and I hope to live 

 to see the day that its influence will not be in fifty miles or 

 one hundred miles, but all over the State. 



Mr. Ciias. E. Ward (of Buckland). This Board has 

 been the recipient of courtesies almost innumerable from 

 the citizens of Dalton. While we have attempted, by lecture 

 and discussion, to show the need of skill and intelligence 

 upon our farms, we have been given object lessons, showing 

 their power in factories. As we have discussed the plain, 

 prosaic questions of agricultural life, we have been sur- 

 rounded by an artistic display of ferns and flowers such as 

 can never fail to awake the highest emotions and aspirations 

 in man's nature. Our members have been given carriage 

 drives to distant objects of interest. At the reception given 

 the Board a large number of these citizens testified by their 



