The regular college work comprises not only teaching but 

 search for new truth. All progress and increased efficiency is 

 conditioned on knowledge of the facts and laws of nature. It 

 is impossible to have a good college of agriculture without care- 

 ful research work as its basis. Therefore, every effort must be 

 made to secure able investigators and to enable them to pursue 

 their work with perfect freedom, and not to hold them rigidly 

 merely to problems of immediately so-called practical im- 

 portance. 



Crops and live- stock. 



There are more than 80 persons on the staff of this College of 

 Agriculture, yet there are not half enough to make it possible 

 to answer anywhere near all the questions that are asked 

 by the practical farmers in attendance here this week. There 

 should be specialists in cereals, potatoes, hay and forage, the 

 different kinds of fruits, the different kinds of vegetables, 

 the different kinds of flower crops, forest crops, nursery crops, 

 in cattle, sheep, horses and mules, swine, bees, fish and other 

 aquatic animals, all the different kinds of poultry. New varie- 

 ties and types of plants must be bred to adapt our crops exactly 

 to our special conditions. And all these specialties must rest 

 on the fundamental sciences of physiology, physics, chemis- 

 try, meteorology, biology, and the others, all of which must 

 also be represented by strong teachers. Every precaution 

 must be taken to develop these fundamental sciences coordi- 

 nately with the application work on the farms. 



Every teacher must have land, rooms and equipment. 

 Persons studying poultry are as much entitled to class-rooms 



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