170 MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



not have a pure food and drug law in this State and all the analyses con- 

 ducted by the Chemist of the University. 



Our Chair of Geology has just rendered this little piece of public ser- 

 vice : The Professors of Geology, Civil Engineering and Chemistry 

 have been combining for over a year to find out to what extent cement 

 rock exists in Missouri. It is hard to do. First, you have to find the rock 

 that will produce cement then you have to take it to the laboratory where 

 it has to be carefully ground, then dusted and sifted and mixed with a 

 certain proportion of other things and then tested under pressing machines 

 and you do not always get it tested exactly right nor all the other ingredi- 

 ents mixed in exactly right proportions so that after probably a dozen ex- 

 periments you may find at last that you have not succeeded. We have 

 found good cement from Hannibal down to St. Louis and we found that 

 Kansas City has under it an almost inexhaustible supply of the fine Port- 

 land cement rock which needs only to be taken out and crushed. A bul- 

 letin will be published in a few weeks that covers the line of public service 

 that that chair has done for this State. Our Chair of Electrical Engineer- 

 ing has measured all the water power of this .State. The Geologist has 

 found where the coal beds lie and the thickness of the veins and no man 

 had measured the power of the varieties of Missouri coal to produce 

 steam in comparison with corresponding varieties of other states until it 

 was done by our Chair of Mechanical Engineering recently and the re- 

 sults were published in a bulletin. 



And so I can go over the entire University and after taking out halt 

 a dozen chairs, there is not a chair left in the Institution, out of about 

 fifty that cannot, if it will, render to the state, first to teach, second to in- 

 fluence the students and institutions at home, third, research into the un- 

 known and fourth and last, but not least, public service and I will tell you 

 plainly that the University is aiming to render to this State as great ser- 

 vice as it possibly can. I believe that what we have done in the last seven 

 years in agriculture is saving the citizens in this State ten times what the 

 State has put into this College of Agriculture and I hope to see the Uni- 

 versity concerned in every large interest in Missouri, provided it can be 

 reached on a scientific scale. 



A STUDENT'S OPINION OF THE ^[ISSOURI AGRICULTURE 



COLLEGE. 



(By J. M. Doughty. Farmington, Mo.) 



Napoleon said, "Energy, system and perseverance are necessary for 

 success." These three and three others are necessary for success in agri- 

 culture. The other three things which I consider essential for successful 



