I also want to take this opportunity of thanking Mr.R. E.Reynolds for his invaluable help in charting the tables used in connection with this report and for general aid

and assistance in checking the work.

INTRODUCTION

In 1906, at the annual meeting of the Association of

American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, Dean W.A.Henry, of the University of Wisconsin, gave an address, entitled," A Plea for a New Division of Agricultural College and Experiment Station Workers." In the course of that address he made the following remarks:-- " Our Agricultural Colleges have been growing along the lines of least resistance and grasping the greatest present opportunities. Gradually the farmers have come to use the college and its workers, who have found that they can often do the most telling work for the time being by deserting their laboratories and study rooms and even their classes, and going out to their clients. These distractions are, after all, the very best evidence possible of our success.

"As a remedy for the present unsatisfactory situation, I suggest that there be organized in every college and station a separate corps of workers whose sole duty shall be to serve as intermediaries between the college and the station on the one hand and our great farm clientage on the other. They will relieve the investigators and teachers of a large portion of their present extra college and station duties. High grade research and the best quality of class-room instruction will then, and only then be possible. With this corps of specially trained middlemen our colleges and stations will serve the farmer far better than is now possible. To my mind there is no better way to relieve the present strained conditions and at