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us, patience and investigation. We are looking ahead in our 

 investigations and are not only teaching 750 students but are 

 carrying on our investigations. We publish bulletins, we have 

 published fifty thousand of them. There came to the Univer- 

 sity three or four wagons with bags, and those thirty-five bags 

 contained one bulletin that the University had issued. You take 

 fifty thousand books and they make a big pile. I have forgotten 

 how many tons of printed matter we issued last year. 



Another thing the University does is to conduct a heavy 

 correspondence all over the world. We wrote 75,000 letters 

 last year, so you will see we are doing something in the way of 

 conducting a correspondence. 



A man came to me and said : "I think it would be a good 

 thing if you had a correspondence bureau." I said: "We have 

 been having one for many years." He said : "I have thought 

 out a good plan." I said: "If you have a plan, bring it up and 

 we will talk it over, but we have one which we are following 

 and last year turned out 75,000 letters." He nearly fell down; 

 he was not thinking we were doing anything of this kind on so 

 large a scale. He was thinking about running off such letters. 

 That is not what you want. You will read a letter which some- 

 body will dictate but I apprehend that if we should send a lot 

 of work off, circular work which you are expected to read, I 

 imagine the dairyman would not read it. We are carrying on a 

 tremendous correspondence. That makes an information bureau. 



Another thing we are doing is to attend a tremendous num- 

 ber of meetings, and so it is. Our people will address this year 

 more than four hundred farmers' meetings in this state. It is 

 too many in my opinion. There have been more meetings held 

 than are properly supported. We are called upon too much to 

 go 150 miles and speak to twenty-five people; it is a mistake. 

 You are drawing on us so heavy you are injuring the work of 

 the laboratory, and just because you can get some speakers out 

 of our University for nothing. There is something for you to 

 think about. To have this kind of a meeting there is no reason 

 why twelve or so towns cannot get together and get a speaker. 



