186 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Professor Brooks. Gentlemen, I heartily concur in what 

 Secretary Sessions has said in regard to the desirability of 

 bringing you into closer touch with the Agricultural College 

 and Hatch Experiment Station, and in the further thought 

 expressed by him that it is desirable that you should ofter 

 your criticisms and your suggestions ; and it is with a view 

 of drawing out such criticisms and suffoestions I have 

 written out what I have to say upon the subject. I might 

 have preferred to speak somewhat extemporaneously ; but 

 the subject is so broad, there are so many things which 

 might be said, and I was desirous of covering the o-round 

 completely, that I have thought better to write out what I 

 have to say, in order that I might express myself the more 

 concisely, and cover the ground more completely. 



