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specialists and teachers to which I have referred, and the 

 methods denoted as "otherwise" could be those of the 

 traveling schools, and the practical lessons in the field. 



The Other Boards of the State. 

 I believe this Board should not only be reduced in num- 

 bers, but made in part a bureau, with an able and efficient 

 corps of assistants. When this is brought about, it will be 

 in a position to work in line with the other boards of the 

 State. The Board of Education has ten members, the Board 

 of Health eight, while ours has forty-five. Although their 

 fields of labor open one into the other, these three boards 

 can never meet upon a common ground and work together 

 for the best interests of the State until our Board is brought 

 to a basis more nearly corresponding to theirs, and the fact 

 that no other State in the Union has so large a board of 

 agriculture as ours, most of them numbering ten to fifteen 

 members, adds force to this suggestion. 



Conclusion. 



Our secretary is earnest and zealous, but he cannot do 

 more than he is doing, or even different work, until our 

 system is changed, and more funds placed at his disposal. 

 I would not, however, ask for larger appropriations, for the 

 State is almost prodigal in her gifts to agriculture. JSTo 

 State gives more. I think no /State gives so much. It is 

 our duty to see if we cannot use whatever is given to better 

 advantage, and also, by a reorganization of this Board, 

 greatly improve and broaden its work, as well as that of the 

 societies which should come more directly under its control, 

 so far as the use of the State bounty is concerned. 



In closing, let us understand just what this plan contem- 

 plates. 



First. — A reduction of this Board in numbers, and 

 making it more representative and to more nearly corre- 

 spond to the boards of other States and to those in our 

 own State. 



Second. — To consolidate several of the agricultural 

 bodies of the State into one, under the control of this 

 Board. 



