No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 307 



COWS? If you can't make money on cider, is that a proof that you 

 can't luake money on milk? If you can't make money on wheat, is 

 that a proof that you can't make mouey on potatoes? With nigh a 

 hundred opportunities that present themselves to the wide-awake, 

 energetic farmer, would you leave the farm and tell the world you 

 could not make a living? 



My friends, these institutes are designed to benefit the farmer in 

 an education way. They are to assist him in his profession. They 

 are to teach him new ideas, new methods. They are to direct him to 

 the road of success. May they succeed in their mission! But unless 

 the farmer, after leaving these halls, will practice new and better 

 methods, and makes an effort to improve his old and often unsuccess- 

 ful way of farming, they will prove a signal failure. 



Among the proverbs of Solomon we read: ''Where no counsel is, 

 the people fall; but in the multitude of counsellors, there is safety." 

 Therefore follow the counsel of these men to whom you have had the 

 pleasure of listening to-day; who know their business and do it. 



A good many of you may know that raising wheat alone does not 

 pay, but you fail to make an effort to change your grandfathers' 

 methods. There half of all your worldly troubles lie. Effort, my 

 friends, is one of the pillars in the temple of success. Make an in- 

 telligent effort, and you will be surprised at the prosperity that will 

 be yours. 



"Are riches worth the getting? 



They must be bravely sought; 

 With wishing and with fretting, 



The boon cannot be bought. 



"To all the prize is open; 

 But only he can take it 

 Who says, with Roman courage, 

 'I'll find a way or make it.' " 



NATURE STUDY FOR COUNTRY SCHOOLS; HOW INTRO- 

 DUCED. 



BY A. D. WANNAMAKEK, Portland, Pa. 



READ AT MT. BETHEL INSTITUTE, NORTHAMPTON CO., JAN. 9, 1901. 



For many years a controversy has been going on in our higher 

 institutions of learning between the advocates of the classics and 

 sciences. One class has limited education almost entirely to the 

 study of man and his languages, history and literature, and to 



