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training along the lines needed just as we want it at the University 

 in Ohio — a two or three years' course of study — just such as Dr. 

 Atherton has outlined, where your boy and my boy can go after he 

 leaves the high school and get some short course in agricultural 

 education, so that they will know about the conformation of animals, 

 so that they can be successful in buying and selling and know about 

 feeding, where they will be instructed in such a practical way that 

 they will understand the soil, and know how the soil should be 

 treated, when it is in need of humus and what its conditions require, 

 where they will have instruction all along these lines and then go 

 back to the country and win. 



Up in Minnesota, I found 530 students receiving instruction who 

 propose to go back and who will go back to the farms to be winners. 

 Your neighborhood as well as mine needs young men like that. Dr. 

 Atherton says that the thing he looks forward to to-day is just the 

 completion of this agricultural building, and then funds for mainte- 

 nance in order that he can offer to us that course of study; and, farm- 

 ers of Pennsylvania, you cannot do a better thing for agriculture to- 

 day than to support in the Legislature and to demand that they give 

 us just that course of study. We can't get it until we have a build- 

 ing to house it and money for its maintenance. It is going to come 

 in Ohio and in Pennsylvania and in other Eastern states, and when it 

 does, there is going to be a great redemption for agriculture. 



One more word. Friends^, it is to the Experiment Station that 

 we look still for the facts we need and for the elevation of agricul- 

 ture. How can you expect that Experiment Station to do the work 

 that needs to be done here when there are not sufficient funds to put 

 specialists in charge of each department of the work? You will see 

 that without sufficient funds it is practically impossible for Dr. 

 Armsby as Director, or for President Atherton to accomplish what 

 is needed. We should have a complete course in Agronomy and a 

 sufficient corps of experts at the Experiment Station to do the work 

 which ought to be done. 



You will see that that dairy building cannot do the work that you 

 Pennsylvanians need to have done unless you have the funds for the 

 employment of the best experts. I do not mean that you have not 

 some, but you are crippled in that department right here to-day for 

 want of funds to give you such an experiment station as Pennsylva- 

 nia needs. Now what do you want to do? Why, go to your State 

 Legislature and demand maintenance for this college to that extent 

 that we can have those courses of study for the boys who are going 

 to remain on the farm; if we expect them to remain there, we must 

 have them. 



Dr. Atherton also said to me privately that we need teachers in 

 agriculture. We have got to have that four years' course that will 



