INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN PRAIRIE STATE 



"Not once or twice in this rough island story 

 The path of duty was the way to glory." 



The university experiment station con- 

 ducts investigations requiring technical 

 knowledge and laboratory service, with 

 which, therefore, individual farmers could 

 not cope. Many of the experiments are not 

 fruitful at all. Others disclose ill condi- 

 tions without suggesting remedies. Others 

 are of incalculable benefit, immediate and 

 certain to last. 



The Morrill legislation effected little till 

 the Hatch act began to bear fruit. Since 

 then progress has been rapid. The first and 

 the highest though not the most popular 

 phase of this advance has been the discovery 

 of agricultural truth, including the inven- 

 tion of appliances and the working out of 

 methods. The Babcock test for butter fats 

 is a striking appliance. By it any intelligent 

 person is able in a few moments to de- 

 termine the per cent of fat in any butter or 

 cream. All cream depots and dealers use 

 it. It is to dairying what a system of 



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