LIVE STOCK BREEDERS. 189 



The Agricultural College at Columbia is a thing to be proud of ; 

 there is no use talking, we are confronted with progress and if the older 

 men of this generation do not see fit to give any encouragement to the 

 Agricultural College, it is going to live in spite of them. It is on the 

 road to progress and it is going to continue to grow. But still you can 

 cast a good many obstacles in front of it if you see fit to do so; but the 

 rising generation is going to learn and study at the Agricultural College ; 

 they are going there to learn and nine-tenths of the young men who go 

 to the x\gricultural College go there to study animal husbandry. I am 

 informed that such is the case, but they have no herd of cattle ; they can 

 not get an appropriation to buy one. They have a good representative of 

 Jersey cattle, a fine herd in that line, but they have none of the beef breeds, 

 no hogs, no sheep and no barn, in which to feed or show these cattle. 

 These young men need to be educated and I tell you we have lived over 

 the old idea surely that educating a boy necessarily makes a crank out of 

 him. We have outlived that idea that it will make of him a book-farmer 

 and a crank. I know and you know that practical knowledge and scientific 

 knowledge can be combined and it is a benefit. 



Mr. Ellis: You will pardon me for saying anything. I did not 

 come here to talk. The Board sent me along to look after the members 

 of the Board that came down here, and see that they got back home, but 

 I want to say a word on this subject because it is closer to my heart than 

 any subject that has been discussed during this meeting. 



I suppose every man in this house is either directly or indirectly 

 interested in farming, and do you know, gentlemen, that we have been 

 appropriating several thousand dollars at each session of the Legislature 

 to improve the fish in the creeks of this State and have not appropriated 

 a dollar for the purpose of improving the live stock interests ? There was 

 appropriated a few years ago sixteen thousand dollars for the purpose 

 of supporting a fish commission. It was reduced after a while, I think, 

 to six thousand dollars and raised at the last session of the Legislature 

 to twelve thousand dollars. That may be necessary but what is the rela- 

 tive value of the cattle industry of this State compared with the fish in- 

 dustry? How many in this house are interested in a financial sense in 

 the fish industry of the State? And yet we have found money — Mr. 

 King said he appreciated the difficulties the Legislature had in finding 

 money for all demands — yet we found money to develop the fish in our 

 streams — and there is no need of discussing that question at all — we 

 have found money to do that, and the only reason, in my opinion the 

 Legislature has not appropriated money to advance the live stock inter- 

 ests of the State is because the farmers themselves have not asked for it. 



