444 MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



Hon. E. E. Laughlin, President Missouri Corn Growers' Association: 

 "I feel I have lost a close friend. I held him in very high esteem." 



Mr. C. D. Lyon, Georgetown, Ohio: 



"Colonel Waters was a Missourian, the so.i of a m'nister, and was 

 known in every county of the State as a famous institute speaker of 

 rare ability. He was a practical farmer, fruit o^rower and stockiuan, and 

 his counsel will be sadly missed. He did better work than any other 

 man ever did among plain farmers." 



SERVICES OE NORMAN J. COLMAN TO AMERICAN AGRI- 

 CULTURE. 



(Abstract of an addresa of Col. Chas. F. Mills of Springfield, Illinois, at tbe University 



of Illinois, on the occasion of conferring the degree of Doctor of 



Agriculture on Mr. Colman, October 18, 1906.) 



Mr. President: The very pleasant duty has been assigned me of 

 briefly referring on this very appropriate occasion and place to the ser- 

 vices of Norman Jay Colman to American agriculture. The honor of 

 my selection for this very agreeable duty is highly appreciated, and I 

 enter upon its discharge with the conviction that the man and his emi- 

 nent services to American agriculture are deserving of a far more gifted 

 compiler. 



To the student of our literature pertaining to the farm, Mr. Colman 

 is well and widely known as second to none of the active and successful 

 promoters of American agriculture. The very full reports of the highly 

 creditable and far reaching work for good of Mr. Colman, in advancing 

 the best conditions of our agriculture, are well known to this assembly. 

 It is fortunate for the interested student that the results of his labors 

 have been so fully and widely published in the official records of the Na- 

 tional and State Departments of Agriculture, the farm press and in the 

 books relating to advanced methods in rural husbandry. 



My efforts will therefore be that of a compiler of the historical data 

 necessary to complete the record for this occasion. All present, I believe 

 will rejoice in this fitting opportunity to refer to the familiar and worthy 

 achievements of a patriotic, painstaking man who has merited the dis- 

 tinguished honors so freely bestowed upon him by a conservative, dis- 

 criminating and appreciative constituency. 



Mr. Colman was born on a farm near Richfield Springs, Otsego 

 county, New York, and his abiding interest in farming pursuits has never 

 been questioned. From an early age he was a diligent student, reading 



