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daughters of yours who come to us for education. There 

 isn't any reason why we shouldn't teach all those problems 

 of arithmetic, and they are taught. If you will look at the 

 arithmetic that is taught in the schools to-day, you will find 

 that there is a wonderful breadth to it, and the breadth has 

 come from the city of New York and from the city man. It 

 is the application of all the things in life that will teach the 

 3'oung man that his life, wherever he is, is worth living for 

 the best, whether it be in agriculture or wdiether it is in a 

 town or city. The school teachers are wide awake to it ; 

 I don't know" anything about the farmers. 



The Chair, I am sorry that we haven't more time for 

 discussion, but the hour for adjournment has arrived. 



Adjourned. 



Afternoon Session. 



The afternoon session was called to order at 2 o'clock by 

 Secretary Ellsworth, who introduced Mr. Warren C. Jewett 

 of Worcester as the presiding officer. 



The Chair. This forenoon we heard one of the best of 

 lectures on education in agriculture. None of us, perhaps, 

 feels the need of such education more than those w^ho were 

 deprived of it in their early days, and who have had to edu- 

 cate themselves up to the farm work that they are carrying 

 on. To my mind there is nothing that gives those of us who 

 have not had the advantage of education more assistance than 

 the experiment stations. They have done more than any- 

 thing else in helping me to feed my cattle to a profit. It is 

 with great pleasure, therefore, that I introduce to you at this 

 time Dr. W. H. Jordan, director of the New York Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station. 



