ceivecl by the farmers in all sections of the State. The Station 

 was persistent in presenting these new truths, and these were 

 the first steps towards better things in agriculture. 



The Experiment Station has done for Maine a great deal ; 

 it has accomplished much. When holding a farmers' institute 

 in Aroostook County a short time ago, one of the large farmers 

 there who had 120 acres under the plow, said to me: "The 

 Experiment Station of this State has been worth more to the 

 great industry of this country, potato culture, than the Station 

 has cost from its original organization up to the present day." 

 Today all of the intelligent farmers are guided largely by the 

 information that they have gathered from the Experiment Sta- 

 tion. The Government has spent millions of dollars in research 

 and investigation and our Station has done as much of this 

 work as any station in the country ; and the agricultural people 

 of Maine are directing their farm operations largely by the 

 information that it has furnished. 



Maine is the great agricultural section of the East. She has 

 more good acres of tillable land today than all the rest of New 

 England combined. What Maine needs is more intelligent agri- 

 culture. 



It affords us great pleasure to consider just a moment the 

 men who have been at the head of this Experiment Station. 

 They are men of exceptionable ability. Dr. Jordan, a man of 

 great energy and personal influence, devoted the best of his 

 years to investigating the agricultural conditions of Maine. He 

 possessed that rare tact and discrimination which made him a 

 leader of men, and by his persistent energy and determination 

 to instruct the farmers by personally meeting them in their 

 own field and explaining the conditions and the character of 

 their soils, he soon convinced them that the work of the Experi- 

 ment Station was doing much to advance agriculture ; and there 

 has been an increasing interest among the farmers in the Ex- 

 periment Station during the entire life of the Station. Dr. 

 Jordan became such a distinguished investigator that tlie great 

 Slate of New York offered him greater advantages than Maine 

 could, and he has created for himself a national reputation and 

 is second to none in his profession. 



Dr. Woods than became Director of the Experiment Station 

 and under his intelligent, careful guidance it has been doing a 

 great work and the people of the State of Maine have always 



