Education in the State University of Missouri. I have assisted
him and his enterprises as far as I could, giving him officer
room in the Administration building and furnishing him, so far
as I was able, with all the aid and assistance that he needed.
Mr. Harrison's work, in a very large Dart, is pure Extension
Work, and I suggest, to aid the farmer as far as possible,
the Extension Denartment should take over a pro rata of his
salary, equal to what he does in Extension Work. This would
draw the farmers closer to us, aid them in a most laudable
enterprise, and at the same time greatly facilitate the work
the great Extension Department is doizg. This would bring
us in close touch with the great principles of cooperation
among farmers and enable us to teach in a practical way, the
farmers the absolute necessity of their cooperating with each
other and with the State of Kentucky in building up an Agri-
cultural interest and Agricultural Education.

     This is made as a suggestion to be taken up and considered
by the Extension Department at some time in the near future,
and if the wisdom of the suggestion commends itself to them,
I hope they will adopt it.

     I wish to reiterate that every interest in the Commonwealth
is involved in the fate of Agriculture; it is the basis of the
large part of our real wealth. Unless the farmer prospers,
every other business must correspondingly suffer; if he is
prosperous, every other interest is prosperous. It matters
little how much money you spend on pensions or criminals or
idiots, on the insane, the deaf and dumb, the halt and the
lame, if you do not dry up the fountains of the farmers' wealth;
if you make his farm fertile, his crops smile in the waving
fields and his bins and granaries burst in the exuberance of
their overflow, he cares not what taxes you take or spend.

     This University is valuable to the Commonwealth of
Kentucky just in proportion as it stimulates every intellectual
interest and aspiration of its people. In other words, it
must bring to every man the last word in science which is
interesting to his business or necessary to his life. It must
educate and ennoble all the children of all the people of the
Commonwealth.

                           Respectfully submitted



(Signed)      Henry S. Barker