knows it all; it is a case of arrested
development.

So out of the department of soils you expect to get the result of
careful and scientific study of the nature of soils. From the department
of plant pathology you expect to learn about the various forms of plant
diseases and the way in which these may be eliminated. From the
department of entomology you expect to learn something about the
troublesome insects, which are so universal an annoyance. I think they
simply exist to test our character, to see whether we have courage to go
on, bugs or no bugs. We do the best we can to become familiar with the
habits of these nefarious creatures and let you know what we know. So I
might call attention to one or two other departments--but you know how
much is being accomplished. You get regular reports. You have a
committee to visit and investigate our fruit-breeding farms. If I may
judge from the reports which your committee makes--I don't know whether
it is because it is one of your children and you are indulgent--your
committee seems to think good things are being done and distinct
progress recorded at the fruit-breeding farm. With your support and
confidence we are enlarging the work there. It seems we should have more
land in the early future, and we may ask for your co-operation in
convincing the powers that be that such increase of territory is
necessary.

How many members have you? 3,407 members, I believe. Perhaps you have
more since that number was given this morning. At any rate, there is a
good number, and when you think of all the wisdom and all the experience
that those 3,407 people have, it seems a great pity not to get it
organized in better form. Come and pick some more brains while these
brains are still available and organize this great mass of knowledge.

Here is the next problem. Who are the people that are going to take your
places? Who is to have a gold watch given him fifty years from now--or
given to her fifty years from now? This thing is to go on, and how? It
goes on by discovering in Minnesota the horticulturally-minded people in
the state; you must always be on the lookout for people who are to do
the big things. The great European governments are considering how they
are going to keep their armies recruited, how the next generation is to
be brought in and organized. That is the same problem in every nation.
It is extremely necessary to put out dragnets for specialists. There are
probably thousands