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very moderate requirements that have been placed on them, so that 

 the graduates of these schools have been handicapped in their efforts 

 to aid animal husbandry. Furthermore, public support that might 

 fairly be expected for this important branch of education has in some 

 states — not in Pennsylvania — been diverted from veterinary schools, 

 where it properly belongs, and where it should go, to weak and in- 

 effective veterinary appendages to agricultural colleges or experi- 

 mental stations. 



It is the aim and purpose of the Veterinary Department of the 

 University of Pennsylvania to make available and to distribute the 

 information that is needed to afford animal husbandry the veteri- 

 nary protection it requires for its development and expansion. It 

 can do this by training and sending out educated, capable veterina- 

 rians prepared to cope with the ever-increasing problems in animal 

 physiology and pathology that perplex and discourage the breeder. 

 But the school needs help, and, while I do not doubt that it may con- 

 fidently rely on your sympathy, I hope that it may also receive your 

 active assistance. 



HOW TO GROW ALFALFA. 



By JOSEPH E. WING. MecUanicshurg, Ohio. 



I need a little courage to stand here and talk to you about alfalfa, 

 coming from another state, with a different soil, and sometimes 

 when I have gone away from home to show how to do it I have failed. 

 Now, here is Prof. Van Norman ; I went up to the University of Wis- 

 consin for two weeks urging him to get married, and here I find him 

 in the same condition. (Mr Bayard: That is his misfortune; not his 

 fault.) If I failed so badly on so small a man, how can I hope to 

 move so large a body of men as these farmers? But whon I looked 

 at this good looking body of men — ^not necessarily handsome, but 

 intelligent looking — I said to myself, "There is no doubt but what 

 they can grow it." 



Henry Miller, a butcher's boy, went to California and landed at 

 San Francisco with fifty cents in his pocket (he has that fifty cents 

 yet). He did not, as most men did who went to California at that 

 time, go into mining, but he went into a butcher shop and saved his 

 money until he had enough to buy a basket and stock it with meat. 

 This he arranged neatly and cleanly, and then peddled his meat from 

 door to door, and saved his money. When he had established a nice 

 trade he opened a little shop, where he kept his meats just as tempt- 

 ingly arranged. Here, too. he saved his money, and then opened 

 another shop, and then another, and another, until he had a dozen 

 shops scattered over the city, and became the leading butcher. Still 

 he saved his money, and then he bought a farm out in the San Joa- 

 quin Valley, a few miles out from San Francisco, and there he sowed 

 the first alfalfa that was ever grown in California in a large vray. 

 and that was not very large either. I think it was about forty acres, 



