sity. There is agitation for other state colleges of agriculture. 

 There should be only one State College of Agriculture, and this 

 should be so well supported that it can gain the primacy not 

 only in the nation but in the world. The primacy of New 

 York is conditioned directly on the education of its citizens. 

 It is impossible for the State to develop several colleges of 

 agriculture of the highest rank. We have only begun to con- 

 struct one such college ; if the investment in it is to be the most 

 useful, it must be developed far beyond its present size and 

 scope. 



We now have provision for three schools of agriculture, one 

 of which is already under good headway. More will be asked 

 for. A pressing duty now before us is to determine what we 

 propose to do with all special schools of agriculture that may 

 now or hereafter be established, and to lay out a scheme. We 

 are much in need of a system. These schools should have 

 definite relation to the State College of Agriculture, with it 

 becoming a part of an organized State plan. They should not 

 be wholly isolated and separate, or established merely because 

 the region needs a school. They should be secondary or 

 special in grade and regional in application. 



All universities on their own account and for their own best 

 development, will in time have departments of agriculture, if 

 they are real universities, as much as they have departments of 

 language or of engineering. They cannot neglect any funda- 

 mental branches of learning. 



The special schools of agriculture cannot meet all the needs 

 of country people for education in terms of their daily lives. 

 If there was one school in each of the agricultural counties of 



