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are too prone to relegate our responsibilities on that impersonal thing we 

 call our Government. "We forget that we are the government, and that 

 unless we, the people, issue our mandate no reforms are possible. All 

 reforms come from outside pressure, not from spontaneous internal 

 action. It is for you to instruct your Congressman in such forcible and 

 unmistakable terms as shall leave him no option but to vote for an up- 

 to-date parcels post or make way for one who will. 



A MEMBER. Has the postal service in England, Germany, Switz- 

 erland, and France wiped out the local dealer? 



MR. BERAYICK. I caused inquiry to be made regarding that. I 

 received word that, if there were any talk of impairing the parcels 

 post, the retail dealer would be the first to object. It subserves his con- 

 venience very fully. I also did more than that. I wrote to London to 

 inquire what the effect of parcels post had been on the express com- 

 panies. They have no express companies under that name in Great 

 Britain, but they do have what they call parcels delivery companies. 

 I have a letter. I believe, from the manager of the London and West- 

 minster Bank, one of the largest banks in London, saying that there 

 were no shares of that company on the market ; they were all held by 

 families who were extremely wealthy; so even the express companies 

 can live and compete with parcels post at those low rates. They can 

 not pile up, I presume, in a few years, $30,000,000 surplus or declare 

 great dividends. (Applause.) 



In the absence of Prof. W. T. Clarke, Secretary Isaac read his 

 paper entitled "Extension Work of the College of Agriculture of the 

 University of California." 



EXTENSION WORK OF THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE OF THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. 



By PROF. WARREN T. CLARKE, of Berkeley. 



The history of the Colleges of Agriculture and Experiment Stations 

 in the United States can be readily traced through four lines of general 

 activity. In the first place, the endeavor has been to build up a science 

 of agriculture. This endeavor demanded the gathering together of a 

 vast mass of facts through the mediumship of experimental work, and 

 we find that this has been and is being done by the institutions in ques- 

 tion. How well the work has been prosecuted, and how great may be 

 the value of the results obtained, it is not our purpose to discuss at 

 this time. It will suffice to say that each succeeding year finds these 

 institutions receiving renewed support and their methods of work being 

 adopted and becoming the common farm practice. 



Of course, the facts that might be established through this experi- 



