62 Agriculture and Its Needs 



success. They went after more money, 

 and now each gets $50,000 per year be- 

 yond the proceeds of the land grants. 

 And now, again, every one of the newer 

 states puts into its State University or 

 land grant college more than it gets from 

 the Federal grants, and some of them 

 twenty times as much. They are not fools : 

 they are more intent than ever on having 

 all of the education that any state has, 

 with some to spare ; the roads are filled with 

 the coming and going of students. Ne- 

 braska and Wisconsin each has a larger 

 proportion of college students than either 

 New York or Massachusetts. There are 

 graduates, and therefore trained agents, 

 of the universities in every village and upon 

 almost every farm, and all the people stand 

 ready to make further investments where 

 they will pay. They are not doing it for 

 mere love. They see that there is money 



