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and members of the Board of Agriculture, together with the 

 president of the State University and the faculty of the College 

 of Agriculture. This co-operation, backed up by the enthusiastic 

 support of the farmers, has given our great State a prominent 

 place among all the states of the Union in the work for agricul- 

 tural betterment, and it is only by a continued and united effort 

 that we can maintain our position. Let the Board and the col- 

 lege continue to lead, and may we, as loyal farmers, support them, 

 to the end that Missouri may become the home of the greatest 

 body of successful farmers in all this great country of ours. 



THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE IN THE COUNTRY 



WORTH WHILE. 



(S. M. Jordan. 'Sedalia, Mo.) 



Did it ever occur to you that a college professor knows only 

 a little? A lawyer knows just a little; a doctor knows a little 

 bit; a farmer knows something; a merchant has a few "notions:" 

 an institute lecturer may have an idea or two. In other words, no 

 one man knows any great amount, and the world does not care 

 whether you know any great amount about many things or not. 

 But if the college professor and the lawyer and the doctor and the 

 merchant and the institute lecturer and the farmer combine their 

 information it makes a lot of it, doesn't it? That is why we are 

 here — to combine our information. 



We are going to play a joke on you tonight. You are 

 tricked, and it may be you will conclude you are tricked a good 

 deal worse before the day is entirely over. Some of the speakers 

 cannot be here tonight, so I have been asked to make this lec- 

 ture a continued story, and I am going to make you the promise 

 of doing like the little boy did — he saved the best apple until 

 the last. 



For a little while this afternoon I am going to tell you just a 

 few things that we are doing to make country life worth while, 

 and I believe that country life is the most worth while for the 

 simple reason that those events in your lifetime that have made 

 the most lasting impressions upon your memory were events that 

 took place in the country. You may have lived in town, but one 

 of the happiest days you ever spent was when you made that 

 excursion to the countryside. Why, we all remember the "old 

 swimming hole," don't we? How when we started to Sunday 

 school some of us forgot sometimes, and when we went home and 



