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Legislature made an appropriation of five thousand dollars for the em- 

 ployment of a staff of workers in dairy husbandry and for the equip- 

 ment for them and for their traveling expenses when they went over the 

 State. The last Legislature put up also a laboratory for dairy husbandry, 

 a fine one. We examined the plan of every laboratory of dairy hus- 

 bandry in the United States that is worth anything— the best of them at 

 least, and while we have not the largest we really think we have decidedly 

 the best laboratory of dairy husbandry that has ever been constructed by 

 any college in this country. 



With that I dismiss horticulture and animal husbandry and dairy 

 husbandry, and I will talk to you briefly, for I must not take too much 

 time about what the College of Agriculture has done for education and 

 chiefly what it has done for education through the University. I pre- 

 sume that it will strike all of you as true that the College of Agriculture 

 exercises more influence upon the State University than it does upon any 

 other educational institution of Missouri, and I presume that those of 

 you who are acquainted with the facts will not undertake for a second to 

 question the statement that the State University is exercising a more 

 powerful influence upon education in this State than any other institu- 

 tion. The College of Agriculture is having indirectly and chiefly through 

 the University a very great influence upon general education ; and al- 

 though this fact is so very patent to me, it is surprising how few teachers 

 and educators appreciate it. I sometimes meet my friends from the de- 

 nominational colleges of this State — and there are some excellent de- 

 nominational colleges in this State and one of them in this city — and they 

 begin to joke me about my College of Agriculture. Surprising as it may 

 seem, these gentlemen rather seem to think that the University holds on to 

 the College of Agriculture for the amount of money that is in it and they 

 r^'ther seem to think that I am going to bow my head and feel just a little 

 bit ashamed of having a College of Agriculture in the University. Gen- 

 tlemen, I speak the truth when I say that there is nothing in that State 

 University of which I am in my heart prouder and for which I am more 

 grateful to God than for the fact that it contains a College of Agriculture, 

 and in my heart I am sorry for every State university that is cursed by the 

 fact that it has not a college of agriculture, and if every denominational 

 college in this State could put a first class College of Agriculture on its 

 campus, it would surround itself with blessings that very few of them 

 dream of. 



President Jordan, of the Leland Stanford University, while not at 

 all infallible, is one of the ablest college presidents in America, but he 

 has no college of agriculture attached to the Leland Stanford University, 

 none at all, presumably, therefore he is a fair witness in the matter, he 



