other states.  This reflects great credit upon your
State and upon your institution".

     During the past sun'ler, there were held throughout
the State by the Extension Department, a large number
of farmers' chautauquas, farmers' institutes and educa-
tional institutes with an agricultural bearing.  These
were attended in large numbers by the farmers of the
neighborhood. Learned lectures were delivered by spec-
ialists from the college and elsewhere on all the vital
subjects in which farmers are interested.  These includ-
ed-, of course, soil fertility; rotation of crops; ani-
mal husbandry; poultry raising; hog cholera, its preven-
tion and cure; home economics; rural credits and co-op-
erative marketing.  I attended a large number of these
in person and delivered such addresses as I thoughtap-
propriate to the occasion and best for arousing enthusi-
asm in everything which makes for the uplift of the ru-
ral community. Upon the whole, I think these meetings
resulted in much good and will grow in popularity in
the future.

     We are arranging for Farmers' Week at the Univer-
sity to be held during the first ten days of January,
and we expect it to be very largely attended.  We are
to have a corn show; horticulture show; poultry show.;
and other exhibitions of those things most profitable
to the farmers of Kentucky. There will also be held
during the same week, a meeting of the horse breeders
association, the sheep men, the swine breeders asso-
ciation, dairy men, bee men and other such like organi-
zations in which our farmers are associated. This
week I consider as most helpful in arousing a general
interest in all agricultural matters.  Last year,
we had an attendance of more than one thousand farm-
ers and many lectures were delivered by great special-
ists who were brought here from all over the country
to give to our farmers and agriculturists the last
word of science on the subjects of vital interest
in agriculture and animal husbandry.   It is my opinion
that State University of Kentucky will fall very far
short of its real mission if it fails to become the
very heart of this development in Kentucky. It should
point the way of improvement in all the great vital
affairs of our Commonwealth,' and it should be able
to deliver the very last word of science on every
subject of interest to the people.

     The great mission then of the Agricultural Col-
lege is to consider the condition of the farmer to
educate his children and to imbue them with a love
for the farm and a just appreciation of the nobility
of agriculture as a vocation; to solve all the pro-
blems of the farmer which need solution; to restore
the fertility of the depleted soil; to find for him
a market for his Droduce; to Danish preventable disease
from his family and his stock; to unloose from his