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deal more than the agricultural work, and worth a good deal 

 more than model work; it is worth a good deal more than a 

 practical school; the work of experimentation, the solution of a 

 thousand and one problems that present themselves to the prac- 

 tical farmer, stockman and horticulturist, but that requires 

 money, and we have not had the money as yet to approi^riate to 

 that purpose. 



The time and the money that have been expended thus far 

 have been employed in the purchase of this farm, the erection of 

 our buildings; in its equipment so far as it has gone, and the 

 money has come from the university, and has been secured 

 through the manij)ulation of the old farm, which cost, as many 

 of you perhaps do not know, about 88,000. That 88,000 has 

 been converted into this splendid farm, worth to-day $300,000, 

 by careful manipulation, and not a dollar of money has come 

 from the State of Minnesota. 



And so you see this is not the state experimental farm; it is 

 the state university farm; and we expect to make this the 

 exi)erimeutal station of the University of Minnesota, whenever 

 the State makes an api)ropriation to carry on the work. At 

 present our means are limited to what the university can spare. 



At the present time we are endeavoring to make this a prac- 

 tical farm, an illustrative farm, and trying to do as much for the 

 work of experimentation as our time and funds will permit. 

 After we have it fully established we do propose to make it also 

 a model farm. 



I do not wish to occupy much of your time, but I would like to 

 point out a few lines of work that we are now conducting, which 

 you may notice as you pass over the grounds, that you may know 

 what the lesson is to be this year. You may* see some bare 

 places here, and a mistake over there, where the boys didn't 

 plant deep enough or too deep. What are the lessons "? Next 

 time they will be more careful. And remember that quite as 

 much is to be learned from failure as from success. We want to 

 know what to avoid, as well as what to imitate. 



In that field of wheat we are experimenting with two varie- 

 ties; there are three sets of experiments. We have laid off the 

 ground into exact quarter-acre strips, in the first series, we are 

 testing the merits of deep and shallow seeding in the first plat, 

 putting the grain in to a depth of an inch and a half, the next 

 is 2 inches, the next 2?, the next 3, the next 3?, and the next 4 

 inches. You can see the result to some extent now; and at har- 



