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fields, forest, and the experimental plats, all surrounded as far 

 as the eye can reach with homes and farms indicating thrift and 

 comfort. When ready to depart, you can safely go in patent- 

 leather shoes over the macadem road to Lansing, ride comfort- 

 ably in carriage or wagon, or rapidly by automobile, or make 

 use of the cheap and convenient street cars, any of these landing 

 you at or near the depots, where you may take commodious cars, 

 running speedily over smooth tracks to or near your home. 

 You may query, "What are some of the results of this vast expend- 

 iture of time and money?" The following are suggested as a 

 partial answer: Graduates, including 1907, 1,288, about half 

 remaining in Michigan, and the other half scattered into every 

 state and territory in the United States and about a dozen foreign 

 countries. Non-graduates, 7,393, or a grand total of 8,681, 

 besides 1,007 wno nave taken special courses in agriculture. 

 Most of the non-graduates and many of the graduates are on 

 farms, and the College has representatives in nearly every agri- 

 cultural college and experiment station in the United States and 

 a few in foreign countries, occupying positions from president 

 down. A majority are following pursuits alon^j the line of their 

 college training or allied work. And it has been a matter of 

 frequent remark that those who have been at the College and 

 gone into the professional or commercial employments have 

 taken a deeper or more lively interest in rural affairs. 



By the latest published Institute Report I find that the total 

 attendance at farmers' institutes for 1905-6 was 126,535. The 

 frequent lectures and talks given by those connected with the 

 college to Grange gatherings, farmers' picnics, state and local 

 horticultural societies, farmers' clubs, women's clubs, and to a 

 large number of graded and district schools, easily swell the 

 number to 150,000 during past year who get direct benefit from 

 the college instruction, and all of these have an indirect influence 

 on the people, difficult to estimate. 



A number are employed in newspaper and magazine work. 



