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. thrifty farmers, and sound procedure for your farms, and 

 all these other things "shall be added unto you." 



The Regents, in fashioning a policy which should as- 

 sume to be in some wise commensurate with the need of 

 the state, have determined first of all to seek an equipment 

 in men. In making selection they have looked the country 

 over; their question has been, not whom they could get, 

 but whom did they want. Five such men they have already 

 appointed to full professorships, and these with others to 

 follow will begin work with us either at New Year's or 

 the coming summer. We have reckoned hereby on Cali- 

 fornians as likely to recognize that the best is precisely 

 what they want. 



The second feature of our policy involves the clear 

 differentiation of the various forms of our work and the 

 development of each into its proper place. Berkeley, Davis, 

 Riverside, Whittier, Meloland, have each their place and 

 work. They are not rivals, but each the center for a certain 

 sort of work. Each has its own fitness. Fresno will shortly 

 be added to the list. The distribution of the work among 

 these centers will be discussed this evening by Director 

 Hunt in his inaugural address. 



But more important than the various places are the 

 various activities, e.g., research and the solving of problems, 

 training in the science of agriculture, training in the arts 

 of agriculture, provision of short courses, spreading of 

 information through publications, farmers' institutes and 

 the train and through correspondence, training of teachers 

 and provision of methods for agricultural education in the 

 schools. 



Experience with the school at Davis proves that the 

 provision of education for young farmers who have passed 

 the age when they could be expected to go through the 

 schedules of a preparatory and a college course is a real 

 need. This was really what the farmers wanted when 

 agricultural education was first attempted, only we did 

 not fully understand them. It is fortunate we can develop 



