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Prof. Van Norman: I might say that the best student I ever had was 

 a girl. She could do her work better, she mastered the theory, and got 

 the practice better than any man I ever had in a class, and she went back 

 to the farm. She made only one mistake according to my mind, and that 

 was that she didn't marry the best farmer in the class. (Laughter.) I 

 wasn't in the same class. 



Mr. Flick: Do the colleges offer any course to girls? 



Prof. Van Norman: They offer the same course as to the men. Let 

 me be plain. The Hoosier girls are not quite awake to their oppor- 

 tunities. Only .vesterday a girl from New York wrote me that she was 

 coming to take a course in our college, as she was preparing to take 

 charge of the farm that had come to her recently. She comes not on 

 account of the recommendation of a farmer, but upon the recommenda- 

 tion of a college president, who is her uncle. The girls are taught on the 

 same plajie as the boys. ' 



Mrs. DeVilbiss: They are offering the dollars to the girls the same 

 as to the boys. 



Prof. Latta: The next speaker comes from one of our colleges in a 

 sister state, and when I was there I was proud of it, and said it was the 

 best, but since I am not connected with it now, but connected with 

 another. I am only willing to concede that it is one of the best. Prof. U. 

 P. Hedrick, of the Agricultmal College of Michigan, will now speak to you 

 on "Opportunities for Those Who are Specially Trained." 



Prof. U. P. Hedrick: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen.— In order 

 that I might give you the facts in the most concise manner possible, I 

 have written them, so I will read my address. 



OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE WHO ARE SPECIALLY TRAINED. 



What are the opportunities for trained men in agriculture? Is the 

 future for such men full or devoid of hope. We all grant that men must 

 be trained for any business or any industry and our question, there- 

 fore, should take a turn. We must ask as to the future of agriculture. 

 Is it dead, or at a standstill? Or is it alive, progressive and inspiring? 

 These questions are of prime interest for you and me. for we want to 

 know what is in the future for the occupation in which we have cast our 

 lives. 



We are making progi-ess in agriculture. A most wonderful progress. 

 But the mere fact of progress is of little importance unless we can 

 get at the reasons for it and so be enabled to add to the progression. May 

 we not advantageously take stock of our improvements in recent years; 



