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anuan berofteohnl Iture mighl had natoaupp* 
MOllld feel Well expresses III \ thought lll.ll I 
qnote ;i part : 
"One line of thought lias been forcibly presented to my Attention. It la b< 
metho itruction In technical agrioulture and the difficulty ifully 
e poeai m i ir information la do! lyatematized along 
any \< ? i mathematios, English, and aomeoth< 
are non bo thoroughly - ed and graded thai a atndenl ool only < pre- 
ol much nioi «• apeedily, i»u t geta a mnoh better training :it the same 
time. - that are appropriate In language or mathematica would oof be 
appropriate in teaching technical agriculture. Ken methoda mual be worked ool 
and these methoda must be ayatcmatized and printed for common iiae before any 
great - teaching can be obtained. I am thoroughly convinced that a Bmall 
proportion, but fairly lai fate of atudenta will study agrioulture when they 
can learn as mm b in a given time and ; r ct aa mnoh thorough scholastic training in 
ey now do when they study Greek, Latin, and mat ln-mat i< 
"We mm «»ur deficienciea in this matter and tr\ and oven ome them. To 
overcome them some men must devote a considerable part of their time t<> the devel- 
opment of proper methods, and when these methods are developed there onghl to 
•in- method of publication and coordination of the methods so that each «i i 
in the line tan profit by the work of the different individuals. \\'<- have at the 
present time a most admirable experiment station system by which every station 
er profits by the work of every other station worker. The matter is published 
and widely diatributed free of charge and then ia summarized and systematized in 
the Office of Experiment stations at Washington. In this matter of instruction, 
we have DO BV8tem whatever, livery instructor is a, law unto himsolf, 
which is in> law whatever, and there is absolutely uo method by which others may 
Ideas which he develops. I know this to be a matter about 
which you have thou \ t deal for many years and you appreciate the sitn.it ion, 
I am sure, unite as fully as I do. 
• aid tln-re not be - em by which the United states Department of 
Id help to systematize and coordinate the work of technical instruc- 
tion in agricultu 
•ed by which this work can be beal done prove 
: aide, I earnestly commend tin- Bubject to the Association 
and especially to t' tly charged with the duty of giving instruction in 
ulture. 
bame in making thia full acknowledgment of the need of a * ell- 
griculture. Have not the methoda of tea< bing almost 
all -■ ching la' d mathematica, been greatly modified 
with; : I Have there not been revolutions not onlj in methoda of b 
tive materia] used in t.- ichin 
Does not the value the committee of ten "as* •• thatwehave 
little idea of proper order and proportion in <»ur teaching in tin- public i 
AJot fb, higher, fnll-conrse teachii nlture which I have 
I would 1. opler, pun - the 
[ would ha tend through 1 where thia 
. three months, w b< 
in these (i ,| the 
tit oral ap] ad be, as well 
: k. 
: rounded edii 
• 'in la II Bui they 
1 Would 
• in in if tl. 
