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ment by agreement among our agricultural colleges. While all of them 

 would do well to maintain respectable departments of agronomy, horti- 

 culture and animal husbandry, one or the other of these lines might 

 properly be emphasized in individual institutions in accordance with 

 its relative local importance. Thus in New York and California and a 

 few other states we may reasonably expect the development of horti- 

 cultural departments or schools more comprehensive and thorough than 

 anything in this line elsewhere in the world. State boundaries should 

 not prevent students from assembling themselves in large numbers 

 where they can receive the instruction of the most competent special- 

 ists under the most favorable conditions. 



I believe there is plenty of opportunity for every state agricul- 

 tural college to make itself pre-eminent in some line of education or 

 research, and thus while doing good service to its state also greatly 

 benefit the nation. 



Dr. Galloway : I have been greatly interested in Dr. True's 

 statements relative to education and training along horticultural lines. 

 There is one feature of this work, however, that has not been touched 

 upon here and I would like to call attention to it. I mean the real or 

 apparent gap between the thoroughly trained practical horticulturist, 

 especially the man who is engaged in intensive lines of work, and the 

 man who has been trained at one of our colleges in the sciences under- 

 lying horticulture. 



For a good many years I have been occupied in securing men and 

 fitting them into places in our work in the Department of Agriculture. 

 Some of the men who come to us from the agricultural colleges are 

 pretty well trained in the sciences underlying horticulture, but I believe 

 I can say that all come to us with a woeful lack of appreciation of the 

 fact that practical horticulturists who have been for years working in 

 intensive lines have accumulated a vast amount of valuable informa- 

 tion which would be exceedingly useful if accepted, digested and used 

 by the scientifically trained mind. It is to be regretted, however, that 

 few, if any, of the young men who come to us have any just appre- 

 ciation of the value of this information, so easily available. On the 

 contrary it is not unusual for these young men to assume an air of 

 superiprity, both in matters of science and matters of practice, which 

 has a tendency to isolate them from the practical man. A curious fact 

 about the whole question is that, as a rule, the practical man under- 

 stands the situation perfectly, but out of respect for the things which 

 these young men represent, he is too considerate to complain. Not so 

 with the young man from the college. He is imbued with the absolute 

 necessity of impressing his knowledge, or sometimes lack of knowledge, 

 on the practical man to the end that it brings about a separation of 

 interests that ought to be avoided. 



I attribute this difficulty largely to a lack of proper training in 

 the early educational work. My experience has been that men who 

 have come up from the proper horticultural environment, or, in other 

 words, who have lived as it were in horticulture prior to their going to 



