No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 189 



years' struggle with the Legislature. We have the recognition of 

 what the farmers of Pennsylvania demand, and what they need. We 

 have a dairy building, said to be the finest in the United States. 

 We did not aim at that; we have never aimed at that specific thing, 

 but merely to have something worthy of Pennsylvania, believing that 

 there is nothing too good for the young men and women of Pennsyl- 

 vania^ and so we have begun with our dairy building to obtain as 

 good and as great an insight into the subject of dairying as modern 

 science and modern discovery can afford. 



I want to say to you that the agricultural interests of Pennsylva- 

 nia owe an immense debt of gratitude to Dr. Armsby and Prof. Wat- 

 son and Dr. Frear, who planned so carefully and so laboriously and 

 did so much in securing this building, and to Col. Woodward, of the 

 Board of Trustees, who gave of his time, without compensation and 

 without any question of reward, unflinchingly, to start these great 

 buildings. I might mention other names, but it happens that Col. 

 Woodward was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, so that, v»^ith- 

 out his knowledge, I take pleasure in naming him here. 



In the last Legislature, we asked for an increased appropriation 

 for the maintenance of instruction in the Department of Agriculture, 

 but we were unable to secure it. The answer was, "You won't need 

 that until you get your new buildings." We propose to ask for the 

 same thing this winter; that is, we propose to ask for an increased 

 appropriation for instruction in agriculture, and we propose to throw 

 weight upon these short courses which will tempt boys here a few 

 weeks or months, then let them go back to the farm and come here 

 the next winter, and so on, as long as they will come. 



I have personally, privately and publicly bent by best energies 

 to the building up of that kind of instruction without neglecting the 

 higher and more complete instruction in the Pennsylvania State 

 College. 



I want to say just one other word, and here I must close. I have 

 spoken already of the relation of agricultural communities to the 

 urban or city communities. Some of my friends differ from me 

 perhaps in my conception of what education ought to be in a re- 

 public; but I have a very strong conviction that the instincts of the 

 people are better than the logic of the schools, and after all our talk 

 of what education should bo, there is a growing development of the 

 instincts of the people, our great democracy, in favor of providing 

 such an education as is needful for the uses of that democracy. 



Let me explain : You go back in history and you will find that the 

 ruling class, whatever it has been, has generally agreed and has taken 

 care to keep education within its own control. Go back to the days 

 of the Jewish theocracy, and who controlled education there? There 



