No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 469 



just how much of it is waste, and how much of the fe-ed which is 

 given the steer is waste, and thinks he is doing a big thing; you 

 take this, and then you can imagine what it is to take agriculture 

 as a whole and try to undertake to carry it out. Why, gentlemen 

 it is the biggest thing in this world, and God made it so, because 

 we are all dependent upon it; and if we Avere just able to carry out 

 the provisions of the lioke Smith bill — 1 don't know just the details, 

 but I do know the scope of it — v»e could revolutionize agriculture 

 in Pennsylvania^ as they will in Gc'Orgia. 



We are talking about Missions, nowadays. I have been insisting 

 for vears that the mission of America to China is agriculture. Wl^e 

 could revolutionize it; they would be more ready to accept Chris- 

 tianity and we could also learn something from them. Their agri- 

 culture is altogether ijitensive; they have no extensive agriculture 

 such as we have, and while we show them something of our extensive 

 methods, we could learn something of the intensive from them. 

 AVhy think of what we might accomplish, if we were to establish an 

 agricultural mission, as they are now trying to do from State Col- 

 lege, by means of a young fellow who went over there to become a 

 Professor in a Christian College, and they have him teaching agri- 

 culture and horticulture and landscape gardening, and about every- 

 thing else they can get him ti> do, and he came liome again and said: 

 "If you will stand by me, we will start a little college settlement 

 over there in agriculture to produce plants that you can use here, 

 and we have plants here that can be introduced into China, so that 

 we can be mutually helpful ;" and they are going to try it. Why, 

 there is just one of the things the Master did when he was in this 

 world — he fed the men wbo were hungry, and then he preached to 

 them, and I don't believe America could inllueuce China more quickly 

 and effectively than by showing them just hovv' we do things in this 

 country. If we could teach them to farm as we farm here in Penn- 

 sylvania, to cultivate as we cultivate here, 1 have no doubt we would 

 never again hear the cry from more than three million dollars — 

 yes, twice that, to save the lives of three million men who are starving 

 because there is not enough for them to eat. And that is sim^ply 

 because they know nothing of farming. Instead of cultivating the 

 river banks, which wash away, we would teach them to cultivate and 

 develope the interior. 



Any man who knows what he is doing and who farms intelligently, 

 must use his braids as well as his muscles; brain and brawn are 

 both required to produce results in agriculture. No man who under- 

 values what he is doing is fit, in my judgment, for his business, 

 for it is the biggest on earth ; and it takes brain as well as brawn to 

 develop it in its fullest, and the man v.-ho undervalues it, undervalues 

 himself as well as his business, and he also undervalues the sun- 

 shine and the rain of our common Father, which sink into the earth 

 and cause it to produce for us the elements of life. We cannot 

 overvalue it; let us value in its true place, what agriculture in 

 Pennsylvania is, and may become to the generations that follow 

 us, if we value it as we should and reach the largest results in our 

 work. 



