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will brighten the landscape, and herds of kine graze 

 upon the hills." 



FRUITS OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 1 . 



The agricultural colleges and experiment stations 

 point out the way and demonstrate the practical meth- 

 ods to be pursued in converting extensive into intensive 

 agriculture. The work of these great factors in po- 

 litical economy is still in its infancy. The era of ac- 

 complishment is hardly inaugurated. We are now only 

 in the midst of preparation for the advance which is to 

 come. To teach the art of conserving and utilizing to 

 the best possible effect all the sources of supply that 

 is the glorious future of agricultural education and ex- 

 periment. The progress of humanity is not a breeder 

 of poverty, but of wealth. For every additional mouth 

 are provided two additional hands. The human race 

 is not a Polyphemus, blinded by the wandering Ulysses 

 of education, and doomed to a hopeless struggle in the 

 dark. Clear of vision, firm of purpose, it pushes on 

 to its final destiny. Depending wholly on agriculture 

 for subsistence, it looks to the field for that future sup- 

 port which will bear it on in greater achievements. The 

 more dense the population, the greater the happiness, 

 the greater the progress of the race. It is not work in 

 the field that has caused our agricultural population to 

 contribute so large a percentage to the inmates of our 

 insane asylums; it is isolation. Scientific agriculture 

 will bring men closer together. It will make the vil- 

 lage, and not the isolated farm house, the center of resi- 

 dence. It will turn Ohio into a Belgium, with 20,000,- 

 000 people within her borders, not slaves to ignorant 

 labor, but beneficiaries of enlightened agriculture, 

 which will bring plenty to the granary, ease to the 



