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mathematics, and when he finishes can go to college or is prepared to 

 enter a trade. You can not afford to build another high school in your 

 country community, so make over the one you have into an agricultural 

 teaching one, and see how quickly and how surely the college of 

 agriculture will help you. This thought is entirely in harmony with 

 the prediction made a few moments ago, that the great majority of farmers 

 who have had a school training in agriculture will have secured it in an 

 institution of lower grade than the college. 



But I am laying out a pretty hard problem for you — harder than 

 present conditions make feasible. The college of agriculture proposes to 

 give you an easier method to educate your children in agriculture before 

 they reach the college than by making it incumbent upon you to reform 

 your local schools, however desirable such an end may be. 



By an appropriation of $150,000, made by the Legislature of 1905, 

 the University has been enabled to purchase over seven hundred acres 

 of as good land as lies out of doors, and located centrally to this great 

 valley at Davis. By an additional appropriation of $132,000, made by 

 the Legislature of 1907, the University will be able to complete necessary 

 buildings, purchase equipment, and employ a teaching force to begin 

 instruction in the fall of 1908. Here will be brought close to the 

 agricultural population all that the college has learned and in as ele- 

 mentary, as instructive, and as interesting a manner as is possible. I 

 understand that two main lines of instruction will be established: 

 First, to supplement the means of home study which you now enjoy 

 by short courses in the subjects in which you are most concerned ; 

 second, to establish a secondary school. 



I have indicated the double responsibility of the University to give 

 instruction to the adult who had not the opportunity of study at college 

 or in agricultural school, and to the youth. This responsibility is not 

 simply a present one, but will always exist; for no matter how many 

 schools may be established there will ever be some who can not attend. 

 Moreover, new investigations leading to new discoveries must continue 

 to be disseminated by literature, institutes, conventions, and short 

 courses at college. So you will be invited to come to Davis to the Uni- 

 versity, farm for two, three, or four w r eeks to study, to exchange ideas 

 with each other and the instructors, and to become enthused for a new 

 hold on life and on your occupation. You are not asked for a longer 

 period, for we believe you could not come — could not leave your busi- 

 ness. Will you accept the invitation now and plan to meet the college 

 half way in its endeavor to come closer to the people? 



To the youth who has not become engrossed in his life work, but who 

 is seeking a preparation therefor, a plan of greater attractiveness is 

 being unfolded. When he has completed the grammar school and is 

 about fifteen years old, or more, he is to be invited to spend two or 



