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making what the present day agriculture — and by present day agri- 

 culture I mean the agriculture now taught in our agricultural col- 

 leges — is to the old time agriculture. "When the first impetus was 

 given to the application of scientifici and economic method to farming, 

 many objections were raised, but now the scientific method has won 

 out and our agricultural colleges are pushed to the limit in order to 

 accommodate all those who come to them. "What has brought about 

 this change? The scientifie farmer has been tried and not found 

 wanting. AVhen we realize how much this farmer has increased the 

 yield of corn to the acre, how he has raised a cow who can give 52 



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quarts a day, and who has saved millions of dollars to the State of 

 Missouri alone by application of serum treatment in hog cholera, we 

 do not have to seek further for an answer. 



Home Economics is now where agriculture was twenty years ago. 

 As we were then loath to acknowledge that the agricultural methods 

 of our fathers could be improved upon, now we are even more loath 

 to suggest that the homes our mothers made for us could be in any 

 way improved. Yet we are commencing to wake up to the fact that 

 they may be, and particularly is this realized by those who are having 

 to work under the conditions imposed by these homes. When arrang- 

 ing the program for this Conference I asked one woman to speak on 

 the conveniences of the farm home. She said she could speak better 



