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the ages, his pleasure is in service to others. His name is "County 

 Adviser." Selected and fitted for his work, from his youth up, by 

 the Agricultural College, we can depend upon his energetic support 

 of the higher and better things in Illinois agriculture. He is in 

 almost every county, reaching to the uttermost township, encourag- 

 ing the beginner, aiding the more experienced, organizing both for 

 business. His intelligent direction of community effort is starting 

 something. It is Illinois coming back. Already she is on her way. 

 Illinois' pride in past performance, her natural advantages, her 

 Agricultural College, the spur of her necessity, these will not com- 

 pletely bring Illinois back. In the last analysis, that is up to the men 

 and women of Illinois. Illinois is relying today upon the love and 

 affection of her children to bring her home. Her men, now as of 

 old, are men of courage and of industry. They are not lacking in 

 gratitude for the rich inheritance of a good name, and a fertile soil, 

 and they pledge themselves to pass this on unsullied and unimpaired. 

 They have the vision to know that changing times do not change the 

 eternal principles of a permanent agriculture. They have faith to 

 believe that the opportunities of that agriculture will come again 



"They do me wrong who say I come no more, 

 When once I call and fail to find you in. 

 For every day I stand outside your door 

 And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win." 



