186 MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



<!o some good for the rest of mankind as well as itself. Presidem; Jesse's 

 lecture last night presented something to me that I never knew before 

 and that is that the Agricultural College is not onlv educating the farm- 

 er's son. but educating the university. Dr. Jesse has caught t]iat spirit 

 in this industrial age that we must do something that will help the rest 

 of the world along in a financial way. He told you of the different chairs 

 in the University that did something toward helping the world along and 

 of some that were unable to do so ; but the Missouri University is a de- 

 parture from the general rule. I wish to offer some resolutions in re- 

 gard to our Agricultural College. 



Whereas, Missouri is one of the greatest live stock states in the 

 Union, and 



Whereas, the live stock equipment and barns at our Agricultural 

 College are wholly inadequate for the purpose of giving the '■borough 

 instruction in animal husbandry which the importance of the live stock 

 interests of the State demand ; therefore, be it 



^Resolved. That the Improved Live Stock Breeders of ^Missouri, rep- 

 resenting all of the live stock interests of the State earnestly recommend 

 the Legislature to appropriate $20,000 for the purchase of pure bred 

 herds of beef cattle, sheep and swine and $10,000 for a barn to accommo- 

 date these animals. 



I think with Prof. Mumford that they ought to have more money. 

 It seems to me that the College should be the place to go to see better 

 constructed barns than we have on our farms. It does seem to me that 

 a State as large as this and with its resources, an empire within itself^ 

 with everything almost that we need to live on, to eat and wear — that we 

 should have an Agricultural College thoroughly adequate. The barn 

 there should be a model barn. The cattle there should be the best, with 

 the best handling and the best development and in years to come it 

 should be the finest herd in the State. Not only that, but the students 

 in that College when they come home should know what a good animal 

 is and learn to discriminate between the qualities of the scrub and pure 

 bred animal. Then indeed they would be missionaries, going all through 

 this country to promulgate the gospel of good blood. But now these 

 boys cannot get the instruction they need, with the few animals that they 

 have in the barns now. 



If the Legislature is niggardly and there is no available way to get 

 the fund, we will have to ask for a moderate amount, and I think that 

 is a moderate sum ; but I would like to see our Agricultural College as 

 well equipped as any of the same kind in the United States and without 

 an equal in the world. 



►Later, the Legislature appropriat(!d ifl 0,000 for a Imrn and .?."). 000 for live !.:to<'k. 



