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unable to attend the agricultural college or visit the 

 experiment station, the best fruits of their activities. 



Finally, there has come to the aid of the instruction 

 in agriculture the moving pictures, showing the varie- 

 ties of farm life and the methods of overcoming its 

 mechanical difficulties, illustrating the tillage of the 

 soil, the growth of the crops and the activities and pe- 

 culiarities of farm animals, the wonderful intelligence 

 and technique of the honey bee, and so on through the 

 list. 



I doubt if there is any other branch of knowledge to- 

 day which has a larger endowment, more competent 

 corps of teachers, more enthusiastic pupils, than the 

 great university of agriculture, which exists in all of 

 the manifold forms which I have described throughout 

 the length and breadth of the land. The United States 

 is by no means the only country in which it is recog- 

 nized that farming is a learned profession. In Eu- 

 rope and in the islands and continents of the seas, and 

 even in Asia and Africa, the elucidation of the funda- 

 mental principles of agriculture is constantly carried 

 on. Professors and tutors and artists and mechanics 

 and photographers and illustrators are carrying this 

 new propaganda throughout the world. 



