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sentiment. You need not fear that your children will become 

 impracticable men ; for it is a well known fact that the graduates of 

 our University are practical men — more able than the average man 

 with equal ability to fight successfully the battle of life. 



If possible, every farmer's child should attempt to use the Uni- 

 versity. If they cannot take a full course, they should take a special 

 course, and at the least they should master some one subject. 



But above all things, the farmer should take hold of the College of 

 Agriculture, and make it what it ought to be by filling it with 

 students. 



They should master the chemistry of agriculture; they should 

 learn how plants feed and grow; they should be taught to compre- 

 hend entomology, and possess a knowledge of all the sciences that 

 relate to agriculture, and be prepared to read intelligently all the 

 works that treat of these subjects. 



In this way they will obtain a knowledge of the underlying facts 

 of nature, that will make farm life vigorous with exhilarating 

 thought. 



The entire nation will be enlarged by such a course, and farm life 

 will become more attractive, more enjoyable, than that of the towns 

 and cities. 



Prejudices will be dissipated; the farmers will be brought into 

 deep and enjoyable sympathy with all progressive life; power will 

 be imparted, and the farmer will become the conservator of noble 

 manhood. 



This outlook upon the future is invigorating, and gives hope of 

 success in the effort to transfer the attractions of town and city to 

 the life of the country. 



In my judgment, we have a right to expect such a development. 

 To what does the invention of labor-saving machinery point ? Does 

 it not point to a decrease of drudgery, and therefore to an opportu- 

 nity for all the forms of human culture ? Does not quick transpor- 

 tation, the multiplication of markets, and speedy returns point to the 

 same glorious end ? 



This State sends more wheat to Europe through her principal port 

 than any other in the Union. Of course, the shipments of New York 

 are larger, but they are the aggregate of the crops of several States, 

 while the wheat that goes out of San Francisco harbor is all raised 

 in this State. Allow me here to give you a few figures to show what 

 California's solid wealth is composed of. Wheat, of course, comes 

 first, and if it was not for the unusual hot wave that passed over some 

 parts of the State in June, our wheat crop would astonish all the old 

 States. We will, however, harvest thirty million bushels- — and it can 

 safely be estimated at thirty millions. Barley comes next, and while 

 it suffered from the hot weather, we will have between fourteen mill- 

 ion and sixteen million bushels, that will be worth at least thirteen 

 million dollars. Oats — the crop is a good average, and will be worth 

 two million five hundred thousand dollars. Corn crop is good, and 

 can reasonably be estimated at one million dollars. Rye at five hun- 

 dred thousand dollars. Wool will be a larger clip than last year by 

 from five million to eight million pounds; twelve million dollars 

 will be a small amount for this year's clip. Wine I will estimate 

 low at five million dollars; hops, two million dollars; hogs, two mill- 

 ion dollars; canned fruit, two million dollars; raisins, one million 

 dollars; canned fish, one million five hundred thousand dollars; 



