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tion. Among them was one that came later to be professor 

 of agriculture here and was for the first three months the 

 Director of this Station. Professor Walter Balentine was a 

 man who contributed enormously to the Maine agriculture the 

 short time that he was here. It is one of those things hard 

 to understand and well nigh impossible to accept that in the 

 accidents of life a man like Walter Balentine is taken out of the 

 activities when he has just begun to labor in a field wdiere he 

 was greatly needed. And so for a moment I would like for 

 us to stop and pay a passing tribute to this man who in those 

 first days, before the director of the Station could arrive, acted 

 as its director. 



Two years later, when I was a Junior, there came to that 

 Connecticut College to assist in the work begun in that first 

 American Experiment Station, a young chemist with whom I 

 was associated in work for the year. The friendship then 

 formed has strengthened as the years have gone on. Having 

 something of a common training and many ideas alike, it was 

 possible when I came here to succeed him, to follow the lines 

 that he had so thoroughly blocked out. 



No graduate of this College has contributed more to its 

 honor, to its success, or has given more luster to its name than 

 the first director of this Station. I told him when I met him 

 in Boston last week that he could never understand how grati- 

 fied I was when I received his letter saying that he could come 

 to give this address. I would hardly know where to have 

 turned for a man equal to the occasion if we could not have 

 had Doctor Jordan. 



It is with great pleasure that I introduce Dr. W. H. Jordan, 

 the best known alumnus of this University, the first director of 

 this Station and the present director of the New York State 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Conditions Which Limit Agricultural Efficiency. 



Whitman Howard Jordan, Sc. D. 



This occasion is one that appeals strongly to my sense of 

 personal relationship. The real gratification that I experience 

 in participating in this event, to which I frankly confess, has 

 its source very largely, I am sure, in past associations. I can- 

 not forget. I would be ashamed to forget, that this is my native 



