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10 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pul). Doc. 



make this the great agricultural State of the east, and 



the walls of your college are not broad enough to hold the ^ 

 young men who will knock for admission, and ask for the 



benefits of the thorough preparation possible here. j 



Paradoxical as it may seem, one of the greatest obstacles 

 is the multiplicity of helps, creating a spirit of dependence, 

 and preventing that self-poised consciousness of purpose 

 necessary everywhere for success. It is the man who thinks ; 

 that grows. More than a machine is demanded ; and to 

 utilize these helps coming from every hand, the man must i 

 be conscious of a great purpose and a continual struggle. I 

 Our agriculture is to be measured finally not by the magni- 

 tude of the crop output of the farms, but by the quality of j 

 men and women developed thereon. Measured by this test, i 

 it overtops all other occupations. The history of civilization 

 is a story of struggle, from that day when man was sent forth j 

 to have dominion ; for that dominion was to be mental, not j 

 physical. Not in concrete masses are w^e to witness an up- i 

 lift, but by and through the active eiforts of each worker. j 

 AVhat marks the difierence between the men of to-day, with I 

 their multitude of helps, and the man of a century ago, dig- i 

 ging out the knotty problems alone by the light of his tallow 1 

 dip? Out of their deprivations ambition was born ; because j 

 of their necessities, zeal was fired ; fettered by poverty, they ; 

 harnessed their forces and used their brains until the light , 

 came, and they did grand service for humanity. An easy i 

 road never developed muscle. In the future, the whole man '• 

 enters into the account. Every blow struck must tell of the 

 intelligence of the striker, every day's work speak the 

 thought of the laborer, or loss will be inevitable. Success i 

 lies not in doing something, but in doing that something ■, 

 well. ^ ! 



Men and women must be made to feel that it is not re- j 



spectable to be idle, for in so doing they are losing not only ; 



the opportunity but the power to be something in life. , 



The shorter hours of labor will be a curse unless the extra j 



leisure is utilized for development. Only true metal has ' 

 the right ring, whether on the counter or in daily life. We 

 never get more out of life than we put into it. What the 



