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and I wish I could emphasize in a convincing way the close relations 

 which should exist between the Agricultural college and the Agricul- 

 ture newspaper, for the extension of the light of the central lamp of 

 learning. This is the true correspondence school of agriculture. This 

 IS the logical development of the idea of university extension. 



If you think I am soaring in the heights, I will get down to 

 practical earth and give you an illustration of the influence of dairy 

 literature upon an aspiring young dairy farmer, whom I happen to 

 know personally, and how he learned, by reading, the common every- 

 day things of his business. 



This young man of fairly good common school education, was 

 forced, through ill health, to relinquish a lucrative office position in 

 the city of St. Louis, and he was persuaded to go on a dairy farm. 

 His assets, when I first knew of his enterprise, consisted of two cows 

 of the breed known as scrubs, an old horse that he bought for $17.00, 

 a rickety phaeton for which somebody buncoed him out of $4.00 more, 

 a monumental assurance and a rich endowment of ignorance on all 

 subjects relating to the cow industry. He dropped into the office of 

 the Rural \\'orld and asked for something to read on dairying. He 

 could not have gone to a better man than Levi Chubbuck, who loaded 

 the young aspirant for knowledge with tracts on various dairy mat- 

 ters and with these and the names or one or two dairy papers the 

 young man marched home. What he didn't know about dairying 

 would fill a volume and what he hoped to learn would fill a library. I 

 think that is enough about the young man except two brief chapters 

 in conclusion. 



Chapter two is the general fact that the young man is prosperous ; 

 he has a fine herd of Jerseys which he selected on his own judgment 

 aided mainly by his study of dairy type and the illustrations of ideal 

 dairy cows in such papers as "Hoard's Dairyman," and the "Jersey 

 Bulletin," he gets the highest price for his milk, because he has put 

 into his business the transferred brains and ideas of every expert who 

 has crystalized his experience into type. 



Chapter third is simply the young dairyman's solemn assertion 

 That barring the hard knocks he got in undoing things — and the dear 

 old teacher, experience, gives us some severe jolts — he learned all he 

 knows about dairy form, scientific breeding, butter making, balanced 

 rations, protein, and the Grout bill, by reading. ***** 



I observe that the oleomargarine question has no formal place 

 on this program. Some husky member of this association should have 

 been assigned the topic, "what shall we do with the olco law, now 

 that we have got it." It is not within my province, if I stick to my 



