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Dr. Kedzie: You might as well burn down your barn in order to sell the 

 ashes. 



Mr. Bradley: Is marl best from the surface or from beneath the surface? 



Dr. Kedzie : There is no difference. 



Evening Session. 



The last session of the institute was graced with a larger attendance of 

 ladies than any of the previous sessions, and was opened with a song by the 

 Glee Club, "Leaf by leaf the roses fall," followed by a recitation by Miss 

 Carson. 



Prof. McLouth was then introduced and spoke as follows on 



INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. 



Me. Peesident, Ladies and Gentlemen : I have been listening with a 

 good deal of interest, with more interest perhaps than most hearers, unless 

 it be those who are actually engaged in the work of reducing these lands, 

 to the discussions as to how you may improve your lands, your stock, and your 

 crops, how you may make two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, 

 and 1 feel a good deal of embarrassment in introducing a topic so foreign to 

 the main thought of the institute — that of material prosperity and the mak- 

 ing of homes. This is a proper subject. We must be housed and fed before 

 we can do higher work. It is said to be useless to preach to a hungry 

 heathen. He must first be fed, and so it is with us. 



But I shall claim but a short portion of your time, and yield the floor to 

 those who will discuss a possibly more congenial subject. 



And yet in all your suggestions as to the products of the farm you have made 

 but one reference to one of your products which is perhaps the best of all — 

 the baby. 



The men and the women raised on the farms are their best productions, 

 and these can be produced on other than the best of soils — on the bare soils 

 of New England they have raised the very pride of the country. Fertilizers 

 are not needed to produce these best products, and they are worth more than 

 all your big pumpkins. \ 



My theme is in the line of the education of these products of the country 

 — the industrial education of young men and women. What is it? It is 

 that training which prepares a man specifically for the pursuit which he is 

 to follow — though as commonly meant it is for manual occupations only. It 

 is a school where young men and, in a few cases, young women are trained 

 to be farmers, mechanics, or whatever other manual pursuit they may choose 

 to follow. Happily for mankind most of us must choose some such occupa- 

 tion. Is there any absurdity in a training for such a life? Is it absurd that 

 while the State teaches the lawyers and the doctors it shall also teach the 

 farmers? Are the lawyers and the doctors worth so much more to the State 

 that she should care for them more carefully? 



Schools were first established during the age when the people were divided 



