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graduates to become better equipped for life's struggles by virtue 
of having the broader education which the college can confer 
upon them. The function of the college is never that of investi- 
gation, but is solely the training of men and women. 
The Farmers' Institute stands in the same relation to men and 
women who have passed out of the schools into the practical work 
of earning a livelihood, as the college to its students, its function 
being to enable those whose schooling days are over to obtain at 
first hand the scientific instruction which will help them in their 
work. The Farmers' Institute is capable of almost indefinite 
extension, both as a college movement to reach those who can be 
benefited by the discussions which form a most important part 
of institute work ; and dowmward, to improve conditions in rela- 
tion to those who are directly upon the land. I have long seen 
the necessity for an organized movement to improve the agri- 
cultural and domestic conditions of the Hawaiian, Japanese and 
Portuguese farmers and laborers. 
A statement has recently been made that not one farmer in 
fifty reads either Experiment Station Bulletins or the publications 
of the Ufnited States Department of Agriculture. What scientific 
facts in relation to their industry they become acquainted with, 
are strained through the agricultural journals of the land. It is 
undoubtedly true that greater good can often be accomplished by 
direct correspondence or by personal interviews. Personal in- 
terviews and personal correspondence becomes absolutely impos- 
sible when any large number of persons are to be instructed, so 
that direct personal dissemination of scientific truths becomes only 
practicable by lectures and public meetings held at convenient 
locations. I regret to say that even if farmers should read many 
of the scientific bulletins issued by the Experiment Stations, very 
little good would come of it, because of the unfortunate habit 
scientific men have of writing in a language of their own, not 
intelligible to the average man. 
It is, therefore, a pleasure for me to turn over this Farmers 
Institute work to the head of our new Agricultural College. 
The work is logically more closely related to that of college in- 
struction than to that of investigation. Investigators: as a rule, 
are not satisfactory teachers. It requires a different tempera- 
ment and an absolutely different training to make either a teacher 
or an investigator. The Farmers' Institute is in every way 
more intimately connected with college work than with station 
work ; and I believe that only through close affiliation with the 
college and the college workers can the fullest and broadest de- 
velopment of Farmers' Institute work be realized. 
The Hawaii Experiment Station is seven years old, the 
Farmers' Institute of Hawaii six, and I, for one, am gratified that 
the institution which will eventually grow to take in both of these 
organizations has at last been inaugurated. And I hope that 
there always will be the community of interest, the recognition 
