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the cattle and stock of all kinds on the farm where we were camp- 

 ing were purebred, we had good stock to judge. Mr. Chandler 

 was there to talk on horticulture. The time was all occupied from 

 morning to night, and the boys were much interested. We did not 

 work them too hard, but mixed in a little fun as we went along. 



On Friday night the bank invited all the boys to come down 

 town to the show and paid their expenses, and the boys behaved 

 beautifully. 



everybody's day. 



On Saturday we invited everybody to come to the encamp- 

 ment — that was Everybody's Day. We had a big crowd and a 

 grand picnic. We served dinner that day to the boys, and I 

 suspicioned that most of the mothers sampled the food to see 

 what the boys had been getting to eat. They had an abundance 

 of things to eat. We furnished them an army ration of coffee, 

 snap beans, bread, meat, potatoes, tomatoes, and one night we 

 served ice cream. We had a general picnic on Saturday and had 

 a basket dinner. We were fortunate that day in having with us 

 Mr. Robinson, a great horse breeder from Kansas, and he gave 

 us a splendid talk on horses and what he had done and what the 

 boys could do if they follow out legitimate lines of breeding. And 

 so we had a very interesting time with the boys. 



More of us ought to take up this plan in our towns. You 

 ought to induce your bankers and business men to finance it. The 

 people at Sweet Springs held an encampment after we held ours 

 and it was very successful. There are some things that you ought 

 to look out for. In the first place, the sanitary conditions ought 

 to be good. Our camp was located in a place that drains well, so 

 that in case of rain the boys did not suffer from the wet ground. 

 Then, we had our boys under military discipline and none of them 

 could go away from the grounds without permission. While that 

 was not absolutely necessary, it gave them a touch of militay life 

 which they liked. All the boys were required to be at the lectures 

 when they were in progress, and we had no trouble with them 

 after they understood the proposition. 



The expense of this encampment was considerable, and I am 

 sure that the boys appreciated the efforts of the banks in their 

 behalf, and the unanimous opinion of all the boys is that they want 

 another encampment next year. It is my opinion that if we have 

 another encampment next year we will have 1,500 boys, and it 

 seems to me that the University here could arrange with the State 



