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His last annual report, prepared in the closing j^ear of his term, is 

 a fitting record of the career of one of the most notable figures in 

 American agriculture. As he there wrote, the Department during 

 sixteen years " has progressed from the kindergarten through the 

 primary, middle, and upper grades of development until now it has a 

 thousand tongues that speak with authority. Its teachings, its dis- 

 coveries, ^and its improvements are permeating the national agricul- 

 tural life. The forces that are at work must cause ever increasing re- 

 sults." After paying generous tribute to those who had worked 

 with him and helped to make his success, he concluded with this 

 simple benediction : " Men grow old in service and in years, and cease 

 their labor, but the results of their labor and the children of their 

 brains will live on; and may whatever of worth that is in these be 

 ever blooming." 



This closing chapter was written in his seventy-eighth year, nearly 

 eight years before his call came. The interval had reflected his 

 prophecy and his wish. It had shown how well he had builded. 



The resolutions passed by the Department workers when the news 

 of his death came express the homage and the affection in which he 

 was held. As there recorded, " his patriotic devotion to the interests 

 of all the people, his broad vision and his practical wisdom place 

 him high among those who have deserved well of their country. 

 Beloved as a friend, admired and respected as an officer, his example 

 as a man and a statesman is one to which all Americans may turn 

 for inspiratior wnd emulation." 



