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they were ''bamboozled" by the lawyers and doctors and 

 made to vote their way. "Then," said I, "what you really 

 need is better educated farmers, and more of them, trained 

 alongside of the other professional men and able to hold 

 their own with them ; so send your sons to the Agricultural 

 College and the University, instead of trying to put them 

 in the country by themselves. We need to introduce educa- 

 tion in agriculture into the public schools and secondary 

 schools, all over the state, and for that purpose we must 

 have teachers, and these teachers must be trained at the 

 University. So long as your boys know nothing but the 

 daily grind you give them on the farm, and the 'three RV 

 as taught in the country school, they will surely be drawn 

 from the farm, and the best of them will drift to the cities, 

 as you complain they do." 



While this point of view was not always taken kindly, it 

 impressed a good many, and gradually students in agri- 

 culture came in from the country. Among the first to do so 

 were sons of viticulturists from Napa and Sonoma valleys, 

 from where also came the first movement for an appropria- 

 tion for a viticultural building and necessary cellar for 

 experimental work. The outcome of these first efforts might 

 have been seen in the little frame building, 40x18 feet, that 

 spanned the creek until recently, just below this present 

 building; and I regret that it was not allowed to stand 

 until today, by way of affording a comparison of those 

 times with the present, as evidence of the progress made 

 since then. 



Yet, while the agitation for the separation of the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture from the University became less active, 

 so that we can now claim the Grangers as our very best 

 friends, there remained enough to defeat, at successive 

 sessions of the legislature, our efforts to secure an appro- 

 priation for an adequate building or buildings for the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture at Berkeley. The secessionists "held 

 up" all such efforts in committees, or by means of amend- 

 ments or riders at the last moments, although liberal appro- 



