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from the soil. It is necessary, in addition, to adopt a new point of 

 view. Hereafter agriculture will have to foster his social advan- 

 tages. 



"Book learning is very important (this is said by President Roose- 

 velt, a Harvard graduate), but it is by no means everything, and we 

 shall never get the right idea of education until we definitely under- 

 stand that a man may be well trained in book learning, and yet, in 

 the proper sense of the word, and for all practical purposes, be ut- 

 terly uneducated; while a man of comparatively little book learning 

 may nevertheless, in essentials, have a good education." 



As I listened to these remarks, and to perhaps twenty-five other 

 able, scholarly and scientific addresses — and I wish that these ad- 

 dresses might be read in their entirety by every man and woman in 

 our laud — I kept asking myself and other friends, "How can this 

 wisdom be concreted in Pennsylvania?" How can it be made useful 

 to the men of this great Commonwealth? How is it to be done? 

 Now, then, what are the problems, and what are the first problems? 

 What is next? 



Now, I hesitate somewhat, ladies and gentlemen, in coming here 

 to discuss this problem of What is next. Those of us who have gone 

 to college will remember that a freshman is not expected to give 

 advice. I have but recently come across your borders, and conse- 

 quently have some hesitancy in standing here in my freshman year 

 in this State to discuss the question of What is next. But, realizing 

 the character of this meeting, and understanding that you gentlemen 

 represent the agricultural leadership of the State of Pennsylvania, 

 I have consented to come here and discuss this matter in order to 

 get your point of view, quite as much for the purpose of giving you 

 mine. I take it that you are all here as agricultural leaders in 

 the State, and that this Institute is the agency which has survived 

 and developed, and been grounded for some time, and which is to 

 carry the work out into the field, and, you know, the stranger can 

 often see the broken shutter on the house easier than the house 

 owner. 



The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has developed into a great 

 industrial organ, whose every member is dependent upon the healthy 

 growth of every other member. Even a sore thumb may cause a 

 great deal of trouble, especially if blood-poisoning set in — which, I 

 understand, this great State is trying to probe by means of the prob- 

 ing committee. And there may be other things quite as dangerous 

 as a sore thumb. 



Now, we have no desire to glorify Pennsylvania, but the agricul 

 ture of Pennsylvania can hardly be considered apart from its great 

 natural resources. In fact, its great deposits of coal and iron ore 

 are of such vast importance that the greatness of its agriculture is 

 often overlooked. I had occasion, at a recent meeting of the Penn- 

 sylvania State Board of Agriculture, to compare the resources, the 

 agricultural resources, of this State with Nebraska, which prac- 

 tically speaking, has neither coal, nor timber, nor iron ore, nor gas, 

 nothing outside of its agriculture to command attention. You think 

 of Nebraska as a great agricultural state, and it is, and yet Nebraska 

 is three-fourths larger than Pennsylvania, and its agriculture is, rel- 

 atively, jnst about three-fourths as large as that of Pennsylvania. 



