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for I read more than three or four of them together. The only reason 

 is that I am not bothered by somebody running in and out all the time. 

 So far as isolation on the t'anu is concerned I have never found it. Never 

 in any way, shape or form, because we always have something interesting 

 to occupy our time. 



Prof. Latta: If there is no other questions we will pass on to the 

 second division of this subject, "What Agricultural Colleges Are Doing to 

 Meet This Need," by Prof. H. E. Van Norman, of Purdue University. 



Prof. H. E. Van Norman: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen— 

 Before the program began we who were to furnish the major portion of 

 the work this evening were discussing the closeness with which the sub- 

 jects were related. When Mrs. Meredith began I thought she was really 

 taliing a part of my thunder, but before she ended I saw that she had 

 added a great deal. 



Will you stop and go back with me to view the requirements which 

 every young lady must have to manage her farm ? Do you suppose for one 

 moment that I expect this young woman to go out and drive up the 

 cows and milk them? Pardon my reference to cows, because this is 

 next to my heart, as I manage a dairy. Do you suppose the young lady 

 is to go out and stack the hay or shuck the corn, or do any of the work 

 with her hands? Not for one moment. What must she do? She must 

 be the brains of that farm. She must know the difference between farm- 

 ing of today and tomorrow, and the farming of the last fifty years. The 

 successful farmer is the farmer of now, and there must be a tremendous 

 amount of good, hard gray matter put into the work. There must b^ 

 brain work, if we succeed. There are nor many men wlio can do a day's 

 work with their hands and a day and a half's work with their heads. 

 So, if we are going to have farming of this kind, it has got to be by 

 means of more headwork, and there is where the college oomes in. It 

 furnishes the training which helps a young man or woman to use the 

 head which God has given them. This enables them to make the most 

 out of the facilities which they have. Now, then, how does the college 

 do this? The college training may be divided into these classes: In the 

 first place, it furnishes knowledge of principles. In the next place, it 

 furnishes the knowledge of facts. In the next place it gives a moderate 

 amount of actual practice along certain lines, which tend to clinch and 

 fasten these facts and principles. And finally, it gives that which was 

 talked of in the latter part of Mrs. Meredith's discussion. It takes away 

 isolation. It gives breadth and develops man, and enables him to see 

 the great pleasures which Mrs. DeVilbiss has spoken of. There are a 

 large number of people who feel tremendously that isolation because 

 they haven't that training which Mrs. DeVilbiss evidently has, to get 

 joy out of living. They are only able to count the dollars, and be sorry 

 they do not live somewhere else. Now, knowledge contributes these 



