Worthy Patrons:
I esteem it a great privilege to have had a long and intimate acquaintance with the late Cyrus Gray Luce. He was a man of wonderful vigor, great industry and unquestioned integrity. He possessed in an unusual degree the qualities which marked him as a successful man , whether it be as a farmer, a a neighbor, as lecturer of a subordinate Grange, member of the legislature, master of the State Grange or the Chief Executive of the State of Michigan. In advance of most farmers of his day, in contact with men of all walks of life, he saw with unusual clearness the great importance of a thorough technical education fitting a person especially for the active duties of life. To this end he forwarded the establishment of a State Agricultural College and, when founded, he never failed to be its true friend.

In many of his addresses to citizens of the State and especially as Master of the State Grange, he esteemed education as one of the utmost importance . As evidence of his wisdom we have only to compare the success of the Granges of Michigan to-day with those of twenty-five years ago, due to the interested number of well-educated members of the Order.

A Patron of Husbandry through his Grange can do no better service than to follow the precepts of Brother Luce in seeing to it that young people of his neighborhood are induced to continue in the best schools until educated.

Fortunately he lived long enough to see the adoption of many of the changes which he so zealously urged and this must have been one of his chief sources of enjoyment all through his declining years.
W. J. BEAL,
Professor of Botany,
Michigan Agricultural College