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307 desire to have the co-operation and aid and suggestions of men who are generally interested workers, as the Presidents of our colleges, founded on the national grant, all are. In making this call, and sending it out, for instance, we found a great many cases of this kind where a university—as is the case I believe with the one in Minnesota—had not yet been sufficiently developed to have any representative of the peculiar agricultural interest n it. There are a good many cases of that kind. Now, where no such organization exists with these colleges, we still want their cooperation and aid ; and if we can furnish them any advice ourselves, and give them any suggestions to suit their peculiar wants, it is eminently proper that we should do so; and if they can give us any suggestions in regard to their experience, it is eminently proper that we should have them. It seems to me that practically we ought to make an organization which should be broad enough to interest all who are engaged in the general work. I think the Secretaries of our State Agricultural Societies, for instance, are men that we particularly wish to get in. They are certainly as much interested as any one here can be in the dissemination of agricultural knowledge. That is true of our Presidents of these various Institutions founded on the national grant. It is true of our technological Professors, I presume, quite generally ; and I should favor, myself, certainly, a tolerably broad organization of all interested. There are not so many of them, as yet, that they would stand in one another's way. The time may come when it will be necessary to go either into separate sections in the same convention, or else to form a separate convention of experimenters. That time has certainly not yet arrived, and in order to bring this matter up, I would ask leave to introduce the following resolution:

Resolved, That the object of the organization to be formed by this meeting shall be the advancement of the interests of industrial education, by assembling together persons engaged in agricultural and mechanical experiments and education, and with a view of disseminating industrial knowledge.

I do not know whether that will cover the views of others l at this meeting or not. Mr. Miles—I think, myself, it would be desirable to have an organization of the officers of the different industrial institutions, for the purpose of discussing methods of instruction, the labor question, the endowment question, and all of these other questions. That I give as my own opinion. I have no right to represent the Michigan Agricultural College on that subject, but I come here as a private individual,