500 r>0,A-RD OF AGRICULTUBE. 



all right, but that since he had been to college all the neighbors asked 

 what they should do aliout things. They consulted him a1)0ut everything. 

 This was pretty big for a young man of twenty-one. This simply goes 

 to show how much the community expects of a young man who has had 

 the opportunity to finish in an agricultural school. Not long since I 

 learned that he was now a member of the Legislature. 



Right in our own State a young man from our college cured thirty- 

 two cases of milli fever among milch covp^s. This is one of the most 

 dreaded diseases. It tooli training and common sense to do things of this 

 liind. Looli at all of the experiments and tests that have iDeen worl^ed 

 out. They are one of the commercial results of education in agriculTural 

 schools. I know a man that went on a farm at a salary of four thou- 

 sand dollars He increased the value of the productions on the farm the 

 first year over seven thousand dollars. Of course it was a large farm. 

 And he was a man of large ability. It was simply his college training 

 that put him into this. 



Mrs. Meredith spoke of the folks that were leaving the farm. Look 

 at men like Joe Burton who has apples and pears when other men fail. 

 He sprays. He uses his head along with his hands. Look at Morrell. 

 the peach man. He carefully cultivated the ground, took every weed 

 out, cut every branch, so when the frosts came a few years ago and the 

 peach crop was ruined, he had a good crop. Why? Because he had thor- 

 oughly studied the matter. He did not have an extra branch to be sup- 

 ported, or a twig to take the nourishment and the vitality, and it had 

 enough vitality to stand what the others couldn't. Look at the men- who 

 take the cattle to Chicago. There are thousands of men feeding steers 

 over the countiy, but they do not turn out such steers as Carrick does. 

 Take the cream at my own dairy. I have used crenm peven days old. 

 This was becaiise we understood how to handle the milk. We averaged 

 more than twice what the usual average is. Take the boys and girls 

 that want to teach in the district schools. I will go tomorrow to a 

 teachers' institute and deliver a lectin-e on "'The Country School and its 

 Relation to Farm Life." Suppose that superintendent turns around and 

 says: "We want a young man like that for our high school. Where 

 can we get one?" I could not tell him where. One of our teachers was 

 asked the same question last week. We have the apparatus. What we 

 want is the men and women. Such people as these are needed anywhere 

 on the farm. 



Prof. Latta: We do not want to hear any more from our college peo- 

 ple until we have heard from the others. 



Mr. DeVilbiss: I never went to college an hour in my life. But I 

 want to say that I see the benefits of a college education. Mr. Van Deman 

 has told us how we learn so much. I come to the Farmers' Institutes 

 to learn something, and then go home and practice it. We have sixty 



