PART X. 



Papers on Live Stock, Agricultural and 

 Miscellaneous Topics 



FROM 



BULLETINS, AGRICULTURAL PRESS 



AND 



Papers Read Before County Farmers Institutes 



THE MAN WHO WORKS WITH HIS HANDS. 



ADDRESS OF PRESmENT ROOSEVELT AT THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF 



THE FOUNDING OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES, 



AT LANSING, MICHIGAN, MAY 31, 1907. 



The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of this college is an event of 

 national significance, for Michigan was the first state in the Union to 

 found this, the first agricultural college in America. The nation is to 

 be congratulated on the fact that the congress at Washington has 

 repeatedly enacted laws designed to aid the several states in establishing 

 and maintaining agricultural and mechanical colleges. I greet all such 

 colleges, through their representatives who have gathered here today, 

 and bid them godspeed in their work. I no less heartily invoke success 

 for the mechanical and agricultural schools; and I wish to say that I 

 have heard particularly good reports of the Minnesota Agricultural High 

 School for the way in which it sends its graduates back to the farms to 

 work as practical farmers. 



OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND WHAT IT LACKS. 



As a people there is nothing in which we take a juster pride than our 

 educational system. It is not our boast that every boy or girl has the 

 chance to get a school training; and we feel it is a prime national duty 

 to furnish this training free, because only thereby can we secure the 

 proper type of citizenship in the average American. Our public schools 



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