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the Hokkaido being possible of development as a 

 fine grazing country, and the weakest feature in 

 Japanese agriculture lying in its disregard of stock 

 husbandry, the erection of a model barn was a 

 stroke of practical wisdom on the part of Dr. Clark 

 deserving of all praise. It was soon supplied with 

 native horses and cattle, and several Shorthorn 

 cows. Vehicles, machines and implements, as well 

 as seed corn and grass seed of different varieties, 

 were ordered from America. 



Having brought to satisfactory consummation the 

 two main duties, which he had undertaken, namely, 

 the organization of the first Agricultural College in 

 the Orient, and the erection of the first barn in the 

 most approved American style, Wm. S. Clark left 

 Sapporo in the spring of 1877 to resume his post in 

 Amherst. President Clark's work in Sapporo did 

 not end in merely inaugurating the College and 

 constructing the barn. Far from it ! He left behind 

 him a memory not easily to be effaced. That manly 

 spirit he instilled into young students at the age 

 when they were most susceptible of external in- 

 fluences, was not to be easily forgotten. Of lasting 

 benefit to those, who came in close personal contact 

 with him, was that invincible energy, which was his 

 and without which, it is said, neither circum- 

 stances nor talents can ever make of a two-legged 

 [ creature a man. 



Dr. Clark's two colleagues and assistants remained 

 behind to carry on the work he had so ably initiated, 

 in the lines he had marked out for them. Professor 

 Wheeler, upon whom the presidential mantle fell, 

 rendered to the Colonial Government, besides the 



