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educate, in the man, the leaders, experts, and teachers who 

 are to carry the principles and practice of rational agri- 

 culture to the farmers at large, and to the public schools. 

 That this must ultimately be done through the agency of the 

 secondary schools, gradually working down into the graded 

 schools, is an obvious proposition which is happily empha- 

 sized by the late introduction into congress of the "Lever 

 Bill," providing for extension teaching in agriculture, and 

 by the broader bill of Mr. Page, again of Vermont, provid- 

 ing both for extension teaching and for that in high and 

 lower schools ; thus going to the very root of the matter of 

 the agricultural education of the masses of the farmers' 

 boys and girls, only a few of whom can go to an agri- 

 cultural college. 



I hail with intense satisfaction this consummation de- 

 voutely to be wished, of which the establishment of the 

 Farm School at Davis is the beginning, which I trust will 

 be greatly extended and multiplied by the new Dean and 

 Director whom we welcome today. Whether separate agri- 

 cultural schools, or adjuncts to high schools be preferable, 

 the movement for popular agricultural education has now 

 gathered such force that, like other revolutions, it cannot 

 go backward, but will gain additional momentum from 

 year to year. 



THE PEESENTATION OF THE KEY BY G. W. FOSTER 



Mr. President and Friends of the University, I have 

 been requested, on behalf of the Regents, to present to you, 

 Mr. President, the key of Agriculture Hall, the dedication 

 of which we are this day celebrating. In doing so, I feel 

 embarrassed at the task of even attempting to express the 

 feelings which I personally hold in seeing such an artistic 

 and practicable building, adequate for the purpose, dedi- 

 cated to agriculture. 



Since my earliest connection with the University I have 

 recognized the importance to this state of this great branch 



