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to the attention of our Legislature of our State G-overnment, and 

 see if there could not be some ways and means devised to induce 

 people to engage in agriculture. If I do not soon quit talking, you 

 will think I have prepared my speech, but these matters are con- 

 tinually revolving in my mind as I travel around the State. You 

 all kuow^ that a man's heart is in the calling he loves. I have 

 not touched on the question of the live stock of the State. This is 

 another great question that should demand the attention of our 

 organizations. Years ago I heard Prof. Hamilton tell of going 

 into Ohio along the P^enns^-lvania line and buying cattle and driv- 

 ing them to State College^ for feeders. Years ago your farmers 

 shipped their horses to eastern markets and received good prices 

 for the same. Today they are buying western horses and few 

 colts are seen grazing in your fields as you ride along. 'Why 

 is this? Too much hustle, too mnch bustle, too much work and not 

 enough of thought given to what would make your county better. 

 Hon. Judge, I would ask a little indulgence for this body of men 

 while they are in your midst. If any of them should appear be- 

 fore you for sentence, be lenient with them. They all mean well, 

 but you know how it is yourself, when yon get away several hun- 

 dred miles from home on a trip, you may want to have a good time, 

 and sometimes we get too good. Uncle Sam McCreary has offered 

 to stand bail for any of us that may break any of your laws. I 

 hope none of them will do this, but we will have to throw our- 

 selves on the mercy of the court if we do. We know our stay 

 among you will be pleasant and profitable. I care not where you 

 go in Pennsylvania, you meet some congenial persons whose lives 

 coming in touch with your life, will make you better, and we know 

 that New Castle and LaAvrence county will be no exception to this 

 rule. 



SOME PHASES OF SOIL INVESTIGATION. 



Bt Thomas F. Hunt, Dean of the Scliool of Agriculture and DirecUir of the Experiment Station of 



the Pennsyli'anla State College. 



When the speaker was a college student he had a teacher who 

 was not only a teacher, but was also a counsellor and intimate 

 friend. To this teacher the speaker owes more than to any other 

 man except his father. The college student who fails to get into 

 personal relation with at least ons of his instructors is to be pitied. 

 He loses much of the value of a college education. I was advised 

 over and over again by this friend and teacher never to make com- 

 parative statements, always to make positive ones. The title of 

 my address as printed was, "New Plans of Soil Investigation." The 

 title as submitted was, "Some New Phases of Soil Investigation." 

 The word "new," however, implies a comparison between the x)ast 

 and the present which I do not care to make. The title has, there- 

 fore, been amended to read, "Some Phases of Soil Investigation." 



