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Mr. Kinp^ — I visited Columbia and I had a very enjoyable time. I 

 ?a\v magnificent grounds. I saw substantial and beautiful buildings. I 

 have seen nothing that I remember that has so impressed me as those 

 beautiful columns on the campus. I believe they are all that remain of 

 the old University buildings. I was shown through one of the best ar- 

 ranged libraries I ever saw, with a high-priced man employed to keep 

 that library in apple pie order. They have a wonderful system of double 

 indexing there — I cannot take time to explain it. I was taken through 

 the Art Gallery and I saw perfect reproductions of the finest works of 

 art in the world, casts of Apollo and Venus, etc. I saw a magnificent 

 school building there in process of erection to take care of the Horticul- 

 tural Department. I saw the plan of the building where they are going 

 to take care of the ladies, and it will be a beautiful building. I was 

 shown what is said to be the best dairy building in the United States, 

 and then I was taken to some barns, gentlemen, that you would not have 

 on your place. I confess to a feeling of shame as a Missourian when I 

 came from those other things, and was then taken past the swine build- 

 ings and was taken into them and then went into these sheds. If any of 

 my friends in other states who are interested in institute work, and I 

 have many of them, should come to this State and we should by any 

 chance come to Columbia, I would do all I could to keep them away 

 from these stables. 



Now I appreciate the diflficulty that the Legislature has in meeting 

 all demands. I appreciate the fact that anybody can see the things I 

 saw and call attention to places where improvements can be made in a 

 great many dififerent lines ; but surely, gentlemen, in an agricultural State 

 wuth a man — I believe I speak conservatively — a man at the head of our 

 College of Agriculture who has no superior in the United States as a 

 feeder of cattle, we ought to have suitable buildings and good herds. 



Gentlemen, we must have barns on the State farm that will go with 

 the University buildings, with the buildings of the College of Medicine, 

 with the buildings of the College of Law and with the man that we have 

 there to take charge of the Agricultural College. 



We are getting to be enthusiastic in Missouri. The Agricultural 

 College is going to be something regardless of the obstacles with which 

 it contends. It has a will and I think it will find a way. It has not found 

 it very fast, not so fast as it should and it seems like the powers that be, 

 have not been as generous with them in their efforts as the powers in 

 Illinois and Iowa and other states. It ought to be a source of congratu- 

 lation and satisfaction to us to think what we have done in agriculture, 

 live stock and mining in Missouri in the last decade. You know with 

 what pride you all used to look to Kentucky for the horses and cattle, 



