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and made a great success, — a graduate of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College. I take great pleasure in introducing 

 Dr. W. E. Stoue, president of Purdue University, whose 

 subject will be "Education and industry." 



Dr. Stone. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen : This is not 

 my first appearance before the State Board of Agriculture 

 of Massachusetts. I think it must have been just twenty 

 years ago this time that I attended the meeting of this 

 Board held at Great Barrington, in the capacity of a young 

 man who had just graduated from college, and felt some 

 interest in the work that was being done by the Board. 

 Since then I have wandered far from the Bay State, but I 

 have never lost interest in it or in any of its industries. It 

 gives me pleasure indeed to come back at this time and to 

 meet with the State Board of Agriculture again, and to 

 speak to you upon the subject of "Education and indus- 

 try," — a broad subject, and one whicli has, I trust, some 

 application to the industry in which you are all interested. 



