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recognition of his services to the cause of agriculture, conferred on him 

 the honorary degree of LL. D. The Missouri State Horticultural Society, 

 at its last session, created the office of Honorary Vice-President, and 

 elected him to fill it for life, as a slight tribute for what he had done 

 in behalf of Pomology. Such appreciation of his services during hi? 

 lifetime cannot be otherwise than most agreeable to him. 



The official life of Mr. Colman, referred to above, covers but a small 

 portion of his useful services to the farmer and stockman. Even a brief 

 reference to the helpful services rendered the farmers of the United 

 States by him in all the departments of rural life would fill several vol- 

 umes. 



The man we meet to honor today has not only rendered efficient and 

 acceptable services to the farmers of the United States in the various 

 State and National positions he has been chosen with such hearty unan- 

 imity to fill, but he has made an enviable reputation in the private walks 

 of life as a good farmer and a successful breeder of the best types of 

 registered live stock. 



This brief and hastily prepared sketch would be far from complete 

 without some reference to his long and highly esteemed services as a di- 

 rector in various registration and other live stock organizations, State 

 fairs, industrial expositions, world's fairs, etc., but the time at my com- 

 mand will not allow me to refer to them further. 



■ The distinguished honor bestowed on Mr. Colman on this occasion, 

 by the conferring of the degree of Doctor of Agriculture by the great 

 University of Illinois, has been well earned, without taking into consid- 

 eration the services incident to the various offices he has filled with so 

 much credit and satisfaction to the interests represented. 



His earnest and successful advocacy of the practice of the best 

 methods in all that pertains to rural husbandry, contained in the weekly 

 messages he has sent through Colman's Rural World to the progressive 

 farmers of the Mississippi valley for more than half a century, is not the 

 least of his great achievements. 



His writings and speeches have made him a leader in the campaign 

 of education he has so ably conducted, and his influence for good in en- 

 couraging the residents of the farm to obtain the best results in the grow- 

 ing of crops, breeding of live stock and perfecting the high standard of 

 rural citizenship by the education of their sons and daughters, cannot be 

 measured or overestimated. All the honors that have been conferred 

 upon him have been most worthily bestowed, and particularly that of 

 Doctor of xA^griculture conferred by this University. 



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