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must gather them in. So in due time we found we must do our work 

 ourselves or we never would rank with our sister States, and we 

 decided to make our society independent. Our State Board did not 

 like the plan; they opposed our line of work, but go we must and go 

 we did. Why, members of our State society, we were like a hive of 

 bees which needed dividing or they would swarm. And so off we go, 

 one not the least weakened and the other grown as strong as her 

 parent. We feel proud of our position, and have no reason to feel 

 ashamed of our work. 



Do you think the farmer boys are afraid to meet with those of 

 other institutions ? I tell you nay ; for of all the great men of our 

 county, of our State, of our country, ninety of every hundred come 

 from the farms. There is where they get brain and sinew to stand the 

 rough toil of life. Without our farmer boys we would soon lose all 

 our best business men, our professional men, our railroad men, our 

 statesmen. Nay. we are not afraid to meet any class, at any time, on 

 any grounds, in any place. 



The college has beautiful grounds of its own and room enough for 

 all her own buildings. 



If the college cannot be taken away from Columbia entirely, then 

 let us demand a separation from the University and put up buildings 

 of our own on the beautiful grounds where the mansion now stands. 



What is $100,000 or $200,000 or $300,000 to the State of Missouri, 

 when we could have such a college as Michigan, with her 700 students 

 and well-equipped farm and buildings. 



I tell you, friends, we want a separation and that soon, and then 

 you will see such a growth as will astonish you, and you will never see 

 it until it is done. 



Our college gets $15,000 per year from the Government for experi- 

 mental purposes. It has an income of $17,000 to $20,000 per year in 

 her own right ; and dare you tell me that she cannot succeed with this 

 money and the help of every farmer of the State. 



Let us but put on the manhood to do our own work, and you will 

 see success aud that speedily. Our farmers would rise as a man and 

 demand of our next Legislature whatever amount of money necessary 

 to put up the buildings needed, and the members dare not say nay. 

 Every man takes a pride in making a success of his plans. You would 

 not want a boy of yours sent out into the world with the idea that for 

 every business transaction he must come to you. How then should 

 our Agricultural college go to the University for anything. 



I have in mind now a man who, as a young man, lived with his 

 uncle, and his uncle managed everything on the farm, even to buying 

 his own clothes, and after the young man married he did the same be- 



