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combinations that people are forming today are a nuisance and should 

 be resisted by every manly man. 



On the other hand, when we turn to the poor, and there are men 

 upon men to turn to, the prospect is scarcely if at all more comfort- 

 ing ; they are becoming animated by a spirit of revolution and want, 

 not only toward the pools and trust sand corporations that had robbed 

 them in many instances, but toward all capitalists and all corporations 

 indiscriminately and blindly. Here then are the forces of destruction 

 blindly patient ; on the other hand are the masses, and between them 

 stand a thoughtful, conservative, patriotic class that is, in my opinion^, 

 the hope of the country. 



Recitation — Jack and Gill, by Miss Emma Evans. 



THE SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE. 



Paper read before the State Horticultural Society. 



The first class of the School of Horticulture at the University 

 thoroughly agree with Mr. Goodman when he said in one of his re-> 

 ports : " In the realm of labor or professions there is nothing so fas- 

 cinating as the study of Horticulture." I wish more of the young 

 people of Missouri had attended the lecture and practicums last win- 

 ter and received with us the inspiration from work and association with 

 our instructors. 



Too many of the bojs and girls growing up on the farm see noth- 

 ing of the pleasures of such a life. The beauties around them are lost 

 and the insects and plants appear only as " bugs" and weeds to be 

 gotten rid of, or as plants that should be tended for their money value. 

 The life in the flower is lost to them. 



"A primrose by the river's brim 

 A yellow primrose was to him, 

 And It was nothing more." 



What wonders botany, the study of plant breeding, cross pollina- 

 tion, floriculture and landscape gardening would reveal. Nature would 

 mean more to them, and the farm would become a world for study, and 

 they might say with Tennyson : 



" Little flower, If I could understand 



What you are, root and all, all In all, 



I would understand what God and man Is." 



Not only the plant life, but the insects with their varying forms, 

 their habits of life and characteristics would be of interest. A bene- 

 ficial insect would not be destroyed, because it happened to be a " bug" 



