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lege whether there is adequate room for them or not. There 

 was a time in Pennsylvania when the friends of agricultural 

 education would urge the boys to go to State College and take 

 courses in agriculture. A personal campaign was conducted. 

 But now, we do not dare advertise for students because our 

 facilities are inadequate to accommodate all that would come. 

 Now, I say the boys are going to come. You can't keep them 

 away. This means more and larger buildings, better facili- 

 ties, and more teachers. You all know how the extension 

 movement is growing. The people are demanding that the 

 campus of the agricultural college be the entire state, and 

 not a few acres of land. This is right, too. If your college 

 is solving problems and getting results, these results should 

 be conveyed to the men on the fami. People are going to 

 see to it, and money will be appropriated for this purpose. 

 But the research work is in danger. Our extension workers 

 will not have anything of value to take to the men on the 

 farm unless the college is actually solving some of the prob- 

 lems that are confronting our growers. Here is your op- 

 portunity. I tell you. you cannot have a great department 

 of vegetable gardening in this institution unless you men get 

 behind the research work. At State College, during Farmers' 

 Week, several people put their hands on my shoulder and said, 

 ''Why don't you get bigger buildings?" I replied with the 

 answer, "That is your business, not mine." I say to you 

 men here tonight, it is your business to get what Cornell 

 University needs in order to solve your problems and to serve 

 you. In other words, the Department of ^'egetable Garden- 

 ing of this institution is merely a tool — it is your tool. And 

 what do you want this tool to do? You have tremendous in- 

 terests in potato culture, vegetable gardening, and vegetable 

 forcing. What do you propose doing towards meeting these 

 needs? Will you see that your department of vegetable gar- 

 dening is properl}^ provided with greenhouses, with land, with 

 men? All of these needs must be met if your interests are 

 to be properly served. 



