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the Office of Experiment Stations. From 1897 to 1003 there was an Increase 
in the Donteachers of 9 per cent and in the teachers of 32 per cent. 
II. J. Wheeler, of Rhode island Ir seems to me there is perhaps some con- 
fusion in the minds of those who have spoken as to what is strictly investiga- 
tion. If a man plants some potatoes and ohserves their form and shape and 
writes op the result, he can perhaps do some teaching and do that sort of work. 
too; but if he has to deal with some difficult problem, which requires him to 
make an exhaustive search of the literature of the subject, to conduct investi- 
gations which perhaps run over five or six years, and to thoroughly digest the 
results, he can not do it to good advantage if during that time he is obliged to 
go Into the class room and teach at irregular hours. There may be some so- 
called investigation work which can be combined with teaching without very 
much loss. 
I know of no better practice that a man can get than by going out to a 
farmers' institute, and I think it is a very good thing for the station worker to 
get out and lecture half a dozen times a year. I believe, moreover, that it is a 
good thing for a man to present the advanced work that he is doing to students. 
I think, however, that the student derives a great deal more from it than the 
investigator does, because there is no man who can lead a student right up to 
the border between the known and unknown as the investigator can. I have 
never seen a man devoting more than half of his time to teaching who has done 
work which was fully satisfactory to the experiment station. There may be 
extreme instances in which a man has been able to do it. 
I have repeatedly heard it said that the German investigators, who are the 
greatest in the world, do a large amount of teachiug. but the German professors 
who have won the greatest distinction are not teachers, but investigators who 
have done very little teaching. So. if there is anything in example and prece- 
dent to be won from the best scientific minds in the world, it is along that line. 
It is not the man who spends three-fourths of his time, or six or seven hours a 
week right along, in teaching who can be expected to win a reputation as an 
investigator. 
H. P. Aemsby. The German professor, moreover, does not have to teach unless 
he wishes to. 
Upon motion the section adjourned. 
