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confined to our colleges but is now pursued 

 by thousands of students in special and ordi- 

 nary secondary and elementary schools. And 

 this movement is rapidly growing. Our adult 

 farmers are so desirous of securing the infor- 

 mation which our agricultural institutions 

 have to give that many millions of copies of 

 department and college and station publica- 

 tions are annually distributed, the farmer's 

 institutes last year had an attendance of over 

 3,000,000, and a comprehensive system of agri- 

 cultural extension service is rapidly covering 

 the whole United States. And now has come 

 this new union of the national and state and 

 local forces for the dissemination throughout 

 our vast territory in a practical way of what- 

 ever knowledge our research and educational 

 agencies have accumulated or will gather in 

 the future. And this comes at a time when 

 all classes of our people, in both city and 

 country, are alive as never before to the funda- 

 mental importance of our agricultural indus- 

 tries and the absolute necessity of having 

 contentment and permanency iu our rural 

 communities. 



All will acknowledge that the national and 

 state institutions represented in this associa- 

 tion have individually and collectively ren- 

 dered service of great value to the republic 

 in the past thirty years. But who will venture 

 to set the limits of their achievements in the 

 next thirty years? Certainly the program 

 which they have set for themselves should be 

 a great inspiration to all who serve in their 

 ranks. They have defined agricultural re- 

 search and education in terms broad enough 

 to take in the multitudinous variety of pro- 

 duction in agricultural regions which stretch 

 from the arctic circle to near the equator, as 

 well as a wide range of economic and social 

 problems connected with the business of farm- 

 ing, the life of the farm home and the activ- 

 ities of the rural communities. The extent 

 and variety of the subject-matter to be studied 

 and taught would in themselves be powerful 

 incitements to strenuous intellectual endear- 

 OTS. When to these are added the vast extent 

 of our territory and the tremendous number 

 of our people the human interests involved 



make a powerful appeal to our emotions. And 

 finally the complicated administrative ma- 

 chinery which we are developing for this agri- 

 cultural service, in harmony with the American 

 interlocking system of national, state and local 

 jurisdictions, will require the exercise on a 

 grand scale of combined energy and self- 

 restraint which are the most marked char- 

 acteristics of the will power of the modem 

 civilized man. If what we call cooperation, 

 fraternalism, or any other name designating 

 united, harmonious and effective activity of 

 groups of people, is to be the governing prin- 

 ciple of community, national and international 

 life in the years to come, it may have the finest 

 exemplification in the activities of the insti- 

 tutions represented in this association. And 

 this as I understand it is the example which 

 we are proposing to show to the world. The 

 very diificulties of the scheme are alluring to 

 us and the more we imbibe the spirit of this 

 undertaking the more we are convinced that 

 we can make it a success. 



A. 0. True 



INTEEGLACIAL MAN FROM EHBINGSDOBF 

 NBAS WEIMAB 

 The attention of prehistoric archeologists 

 has long been turned toward the region of 

 Weimar, Germany, because of important dis- 

 coveries made at Taubach and Ehringsdorf, 

 both in the Ilm Valley. KnovTn since 1871, 

 the station of Taubach (back of the village of 

 that name) was systematically explored be- 

 tween 1876 and 1880. The deposits at Tau- 

 bach and Ehringsdorf are alike. Their basis 

 is a layer of sand and gravel dating from the 

 third or Eiss glacial epoch (Obermaier). 

 Above this is lower travertine with remains of 

 the mammoth and woolly rhinoceros near the 

 bottom, and those of Elephas antiquus and 

 Rhinoceros merckii, both witnesses of a warm 

 climate, near the top. Next above at Ehrings- 

 dorf comes the so-called " Pariser " (corrup- 

 tion from Poroser) deposit, a sort of loess. 

 BKgher still is a deposit of upper travertins 

 with remains of the stag and woolly rhinoc- 

 eros; curiously enough the Bhinoceros merckii 

 also occurs at this level. 



