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simple and easy of solution. To master them, the farmers 

 of the state need the very best help the university can give 

 them. 



Perhaps some will expect too much from the enlarged 

 scope of the activities of the agricultural department of the 

 university; certain it is that no work it may ever do can 

 guarantee every farmer in the state a big crop every year 

 and an automobile to go to town in. To those, however, 

 who will reach out to take hold of the guiding hand which 

 the university will extend, it will be possible to walk in 

 the broad highway of success. I believe that President 

 Wheeler and the Regents of the University have a vision 

 of the future relations of the University to the farmers and 

 fruit growers of California that will be made possible by 

 the work of men like Dr. Hunt, Dr. "Webber, and Professor 

 Stubenrauch a vision which will be realized in a vast 

 increase in the cultivated area of the state and an increase 

 in crops commensurate with the fertility of our soil and the 

 perpetual stimulus of our golden sunshine. 



California is expecting to reap great benefits from the 

 opening of the Panama Canal' but the completion of that 

 great undertaking is going to bring us problems as well as 

 blessings. The rich tourist can come to California now but 

 the present immigrant from Europe stops on the other side 

 of the country. The railroad fare from New York to San 

 Francisco acts as a high tariff that operates to shut this 

 class of immigration out of California. With the opening 

 of the canal, however, the immigrant from Europe can 

 come in through the Golden Gate and be landed in San 

 Francisco at practically the same steamship fare he now 

 pays to reach New York. And they will come here not 

 the fair-haired, blue-eyed Saxon from the north but much 

 | less desirable classes, the timid and thrifty Jew from 

 Russia, the stolid Slav from Central Europe, and the hot- 

 blooded Latin from the Mediterranean. Are we ready for 

 them ? Not yet. If they congregate in the cities, they will 

 prove a curse rather than a blessing to the state. The only 



