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Mr. Martin says I have charge of things, and don't work. Well, 

 it takes some one to be at the head of things, and look after them, 

 when there are so many bnreans; he has charge of the educational 

 work. Then there is the Bureau of Economic Zoology, the Pure Food 

 Bureau, the Livestock Sanitary Board, and various other forms of 

 activity in the line of agriculture, all come under the department of 

 which I am the head. Some one must take care of the machinery, and 

 see that it is oiled, and that it will do good work, and that is my 

 work. 



I came up here to attend a meeting of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, which met this morning; and yet, I am interested in this edu- 

 cational work. You have heard of the institutes, and of the num- 

 ber of farmers that were in attendance at the Institutes last win- 

 ter, and of the character of the instruction that was given. The De- 

 partment always tries to get good men for this work, and when 

 these men talk to you they are qualified by experience, and have 

 worked out these problems on their own farms. And by the grace 

 of the last General Assembly, there have been added to the list of 

 our instructors. Advisers, who will go out on the farms, and into 

 the homes, and look at the problems as they present themselves in 

 each individual case, and give the necessary instructions to over- 

 come them. 



We are glad to have the State College, with its Experiment Sta- 

 tion, and the great Federal Government, with which to work in con- 

 junction, and look to for advice and assistance in working out some 

 of these problems, and by grace of the Congress of the United States, 

 men are now being sent out to study out new spots in which to 

 grow new crops, and to go into foreign lands to find new crops that 

 can be raised on our American soils. Our State Department, as 

 Mr. Martin has already said, stands ready to co-operate with all 

 these forces that tend towards the success of agriculture, and also 

 to help the individual farmer solve his own individual problems. 



I am glad to hear Judge Staples refer to the production of the 

 crop of boys and girls on the farm. In order to make good farms, 

 we must have these boys and girls just as well equipped for their 

 work on the farm, as are the boys and girls in the cities for their 

 work. We want them to understand the relation they sustain to 

 their fellows: we want them to understand not only the Fatherhood 

 of God, but the Brotherhood of Man, and the relation they sustain 

 to their brother men, and the relation the farmer sustains to his fel- 

 lows. We want them to know that they are not only the equal of 

 their fellows, but that the other men look to them for sustenance. 

 We want them to have that feeling of brotherly kindness to their 

 fellow men that is shown in the story of the man who went down 

 from Jerusalem to Jericho, and was beset by robbers and beaten 

 and robbed of everything he had, and whom the Jew and the Levite 

 passed him by in his distress; but while he lay there half dead, there 

 came a Samaritan riding down the mountain, and notwithstanding 

 that there was no communication betu^een the Jews and the Samari- 

 tans, this man dismounted from his beast, and ministered to the poor 

 man, and when he had revived him sufficiently, set him on his own 

 beast and led him to the inn, where he paid the score, and told the 

 landlord to care for him, that he would pay anything extra there 

 might be when he came back. We want to teach our boys and 



