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What are the results of this training upon the homes and 

 the agricultural interests of the State of Kansas? 



First — It has made more efficient and prosperous farmers, 

 hence has increased the A^alue of land and of crops many times 

 over. 



Second — It has developed a love for country life not known 

 to uneducated farmers. 



Third — It has added to the beauty and comfort of farmers' 

 homes, as many of the farmers' wives have the training that 

 makes them helpful comrades for their husbands and chil- 

 dren, as well as good housekeepers. 



Fourth — It has improved the community life, for the love 

 for books, music and art gained at college has interested them 

 in libraries and lectures, and in better music and pictures, 

 while enough of the social graces have been acquired to enable 

 them to meet people easily and freely. 



Fifth — It has interested them in civic affairs, for all have 

 had some training in sociology and political economy. The 

 farmers of Katisas are alive to social questions and political 

 interests of their State and the Nation. Nothing could illus- 

 trate this better than the recent fight with the Standard Oil 

 monopoly. It was the intelligent interest of the farmers of 

 Kansas that made that fight possible and successful. 



Sixth — It has greatly improved the rural schools, both in 

 raising the standard for the teachers, in better buildings, more 

 attractive school grounds, and better equipment and furnish- 

 ings for the schoolhouse. 



Seventh — It has resulted in happier homes, in healthier fam- 

 ilies, stronger, better-nourished and better-trained children ; 

 because the farmers' wives have more to make their lives in- 

 teresting and are better poised and are more intelligent. And 

 yet this is not all, for the Kansas College of Agriculture, for 

 one. has further made good, it may be stated, in that fifty im- 

 portant positions in our National Department of Agriculture 

 are held by its graduates, and as many more are teachers of 

 agriculture in State colleges, and many more are numbered 

 among the State's honored citizens — professional men and 

 w^omen, merchants, and advanced practical agriculturists. 



A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE COLLEGE OF 

 AGRICULTURE OF U AW AIL 



By J. E. Higgiiis, Horiicutiurist Haroaii Expcriiucnt Station. 



The natural function of an agricultural college is not pri- 

 marilv research, but instruction. It does not discover, but 

 teaches truth. It should take the results of the work of investi- 



