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to our college. She Wanted to go to school because she wanted to get 

 away from the farm. As I said, she came to our college and got inter- 

 ested in the daiiy work. That was one thing that she could do. She went 

 home and told her father that she would take care of the milk and but- 

 ter. She did so, and is now selling it in Indianapolis. She is getting 

 more pleasure than many a girl that is working in the factory. Of course 

 she has to be there on Sunday, but you can't get anything for nothing. 

 She has good health, and is more independent, and is making more money 

 than lots of girls that are working on salaries. 



A young man came to our college to get away from home. He went 

 home to make one of the best farmers in the country. So college train- 

 ing does do these things. Of course we can't accomplish much if we do 

 not have much to work with. It is not every colt that is trained, and 

 bandaged, and fed and slept with that makes the two minute horse. If 

 it is not in the colt you can't get it out. But there isn't a poor old pelter- 

 uo matter how stiff and poor, but what if he is bandaged and cared foi 

 and slept with will not go a little faster if he doesn't fall down and kill 

 himself. Occasionally one surprises himself at college. The college train- 

 ing is but th& commencement to the end. It is not the end. Do not think 

 because a man has been to college he knows all there is to know. There 

 may be a little more in him, but not as much as there ought to be. If 

 a college training isn't worth getting it is not worth having. If you have 

 it is nice to send them. But I do not think it is always wise to do that, 

 a son or daughter that wants a college education 'and you can afl'ord it. 

 Most aiiyone can get an education by the time they are thirty-eight or 

 nine years old. I have been through the mill. Many of you have. If 

 a college education is worth having it is worth getting j-ourself. Earn 

 a little today when you are idle, and save it for after awhile when you 

 may need it worse. When you want a young man to go to agi-icultural 

 college you must show him the big side of it, the beauties of it. Tell him 

 something that he doesn't know. Show him- how to raise live stock and 

 breed cattle, and how to raise corn. Why do they go to college? To get 

 something into their heads instead of their hands. They will then have a 

 greater interest in the farm. 



Mrs. DeVilbiss: One of the strong arguments against the agricultural 

 school is this: If we have a bright boy that we have taught to be a prac- 

 tical farmer upon the farm, and we send him to agricultural college to get 

 an education, we never get him back on the farm. I would like to 

 know Avhat per cent, of the college students that take the four years' 

 coiu'se go back to the farm? 



Prof. Van Norman: In Indiana I can't give you the exact figures, 

 but we have a very large proportion that go back to the farm. Most 

 of the l)oys Hint coino. own farms of tlieir own. or are going back 1o work 

 on their father's farm. I think tliore were only two men out of nine that 



