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The farmer must help the agricultural college if it is to do the most 

 for the people and how can he do this? First, by getting interested in 

 progressive agriculture himself and then by talking to the young people 

 of his community and get them enthusiastic over farming. Tell them that 

 Sir John Lubbock said, "Ignorance costs more than education." Also tell 

 them that Uncle John Patterson, in talking from long experience, said, 

 "Increased profits in farming come with increased knowledge." Having 

 done this persuade them to come to the Missouri Agricultural College. 

 They need not be wealthy to attend the state's great school. Nearly all 

 the graduates of the agricultural college, since I have known anything of 

 the school, have worked their way through. If a fellow comes to the 

 Missouri University and wants to work his way through, the professors 

 and the Young Men's Christian Association will see that he gets a chance. 



Next the farmer should demand of the State Legislature appropria- 

 ations large enough to place the Missouri Agricultural college ahead of 

 any in America. To do this the college farm must be better equipped 

 with cattle for the teaching of animal husbandry. The Iowa Agricultural 

 college has $55,000 in fancy cattle, hogs and sheep, while Missouri has 

 only $5,000. The Missouri Live Stock Association should strive to place 

 our college ahead of Iowa. 



I think this Association should do everything in its power to get an 

 appropriation from the state for money to buy finished cattle for the 

 Agricultural college. We have a strong man in that course, but we have 

 not sufficient cattle to work with and I think this association could get 

 that appropriation if they would only work like the Dairy Association 

 worked. Two years ago the Dairy Association asked the Missouri Legis- 

 lature for thirty thousand dollars for a dairy building and five thousand 

 dollars for a chair of Dairy Husbandry and the bill passed without any 

 trouble. President Jesse, in speaking of the Dairy Association a few 

 weeks ago said that he only wished that he could have the Dairy Associ- 

 ation back of every request he made to the State Legislature. It looks 

 to me like this association could have a great deal more influence with the 

 State Legislature than the Dairy Association, because the live stock in- 

 terests of the State of Missouri are certainly far ahead of the dairy in- 

 terests and I am sure that if this association would only go to work with 

 the same zeal that the Dairy Association has shown, our Agricultural Col- 

 lege will be far ahead of Iowa, Illinois or that of any other State in the 

 Mississippi Valley. 



