organization. If they were to be developed anew today, they 

 would naturally issue from the colleges of agriculture, if the 

 colleges in the different states were capable of handling them, 

 because they are educational agencies and because the exten- 

 sion enterprise of the college must on its own account develop 

 similar work. There is a popular impression that farmers' 

 institutes will soon have served their purpose and will natur- 

 ally discontinue. I doubt whether this is true. It certainly 

 will not be true when they constitute part of a well organized 

 extension-teaching scheme. The nature of their work will 

 change from year to year, as any other living work changes; 

 but it will always be necessary to instruct the farm people at 

 their homes. It will be increasingly necessary to substitute 

 demonstration and laboratory work for much of the lecturing. 

 We must develop a new type of institute man, unlike the col- 

 lege professor on the one hand and the so-called practical 

 farmer on the other. These men must be trained for this kind 

 of public work, as carefully as other men are trained to be 

 chemists or engineers. They should live for at least part of 

 the year on the land, and they should also be connected with 

 an institution that can keep them in touch with the best and 

 latest information. In other words, they should be farmers 

 as well as students, and students as well as farmers. The 

 regular college or experiment station specialist will be called 

 on here and there when expert knowledge of a particular kind 

 is wanted, but his main effort should not be diverted from his 

 regular work. The institute teacher, in all the states, will then 

 be chosen with the same care that a college or experiment 

 station chooses the members of its staff; his teaching will be as 



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