Iffr. W\ I thai the question whether it «ras a legitimate 
application of the Hatch fund bo paj the e: oi .1 delegate t<> 
these conveiitiona and to pay the animal contribution of the stations 
to the foods of the \ ion had been exhaustively considered i>\ 
the Department of Agriculture, and the decision was thai these «li> 
bursements were perfectly legitimate. The Treasury Department baa 
sustained the decision of the Department <>r Agriculture. 
The Chairman. Mi-. Harris this morniug emphasized the truth that 
the institutions w< tent are first of all colleges, and that our work 
i< for education. This being so, we arc not only connected with the 
n tment <>t" Agriculture, luit \\ itli all educational work, particularly 
as represented by national officers. 1 count it a -rent privilege to 
1 to «»nc who not only by personal qualifications, but by long 
nee, is so well entitled to our most earnest attention. 
I tak< 2 pleasure in introducing Hon. W. T, Harris, Com uissioner 
acatiou. 
The Teaching of Agriculi ua 
I thank yon, Mr. 1 for your kind allusions to me personally. In the fen 
■ i 1 i • ■ 1 1 I have to make I propose to call attention to the twofold relation 
altural college bears, namely, 00 the one hand to the Departmenl of 
ilturc, and on the other hand to the Bureau of Education. The Department 
3 ts it by n I il experiments in regard to plants 
andanim* ction of th best methods of training and cultivating, the modes 
indsoil. We mother I departments of the Government here 
in Washington arc proud of what the Department of Agriculture does in these and in 
lines. But my Bureau wishes to be kept in mind by the manag jrrioul- 
ohing and school management. 1 
_ ii of the method of teaching agriculture as a branch of .study. 
iltnral population in any country is the most conservative class of all its 
r the methods of their pi e patriarchal in their 
!t with them and do not need assurances from me. You could 
inject. But I was born on a farm, and had the education 
me thing about the prejudices and conceits that he bai 
!■-!) to be the one whi< - the most • 
inde] of all employments, because In d often tl ■ 
i an ideal civilization in Borne far distant future 
t only farms. I could make a long story of the develop- 
: _ I'd. I could tell how I changed mj formei 
ming is t lent of the employments, and that 
ill in that period ' • oann- 
p posing that ; i> ed most 
Ith <if the country, but 
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