cause I am under obligation to you to state what I see. We 

 must fairly face the work that is before us. 



By extension work, I mean all kinds of teaching with the 

 people at their homes and on the farms. The three great 

 phases or sides of agricultural college work, as I have said, are 

 the experiment or research, the regular college teaching, and 

 the outside teaching. The college teaching must be founded 

 directly on the knowledge gained in research, and the exten- 

 sion work must be founded on both. Colleges of agriculture 

 are the only educational institutions that are charged with the 

 double responsibility of teaching the students who come to 

 them and of developing the business in which these students 

 and their parents engage. 



This College of Agriculture cannot serve the state as it is 

 capable of doing without engaging in many kinds of extension 

 work. It ought to serve farmers who cannot go to college, or 

 who do not know what a college is. The College must be taken 

 to the people. All State colleges should become a real part 

 of the machinery of society (or the State), participating 

 directly in all. work for the good of the people, so far as such 

 work comes within the range of their subject-matter. They 

 become, thereby, a real expression of the needs and the ideals 

 of the people. 



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