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special study of our local conditions and assist in getting the to- 

 bacco industry established on a sound basis. 



Hoping that you may send such resolutions to Secretary Wilson 

 by an early steamer, I am, very truly yours, 



J. Kalaxianaole, 

 Delegate to Congress. 



USE OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. 



Prof. U. Thompson was then introduced, and read the follow- 

 ing paper on "The Use of Agricultural Colleges": 



The Agricultural Colleges belong to the people, and the people 

 should use them as freely as they use their horses or their farms. 

 If you ask how these colleges can be used, I can at least tell how 

 some people are using them. And no doubt, other ways will be 

 developed, as the people realize their value. 



The first way is for young men and women to go to these col- 

 leges and take the course in agriculture. Wliile East, I heard 

 of two cases that will serve as illustrations. A farmer in Central 

 New York w^as in debt for his farm. He had toiled long hours 

 each day for years ; but the mortgage was immovable. When the 

 son has grown to young manhood, he decided to take a course 

 in agriculture at Cornell. The father supplied him with money, 

 which increased the mortgage, and the son worked extra time at 

 college for additional funds to pay his expenses. He spent his 

 vacations at home working reforms in the way of fruit growing 

 and better dairy stock and methods. When he had completed his 

 course, he returned to the farm and took the helm. In three 

 years he cleared the farm of the mortgage. 



The second case was of another farmer who was even more un- 

 fortunate than the farmer already mentioned, for, work as he 

 would, the mortgage grew, year by year. When he died the farm 

 was sold to satisfy the mortgagee. There was a small amount 

 left over. The daughter took this money and went to Cornell. 

 She worked extra time for money to help pay her expenses and 

 finally graduated from the Agricultural Department. Then she 

 rented the farm her father had lost and began fruit growing. To- 

 day she owns the farm. 



These are only isolated cases. But throughout the country 

 you see results of like training in orchards and stock and pro- 

 duction. You hear much about scientific farming, but can not 



