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State, dift'ering perha}),s according to the degree of power 

 and influence and position of the men in the various pro- 

 fessions and callings. This knowledge comes to the benefit 

 of all the citizens of the State, sometimes difl^ering in degree, 

 sometimes larger and wider, and sometimes not so great, 

 whether they are engaged in these professions or callings or 

 lalioring on the farm. Let us throw aside that small prejudice 

 that has been so often encouraged by the question, How many 

 of your students go back to cultivating the farms ? 



Ex-Governor Hoard. Mr. Chairman, I am very much 

 interested also. For the first time in the history of Wis- 

 consin — we have agitated and agitated and agitated until 

 we have produced a state of public sentiment. As I say, for 

 the first time in its history the college of agriculture in our 

 State University contains more students to-day than the col- 

 lege of law, and we think that the water now is beginning 

 to run in the right direction. We have been very lax. The 

 agricultural population of this country sufters to-day in com- 

 parison with other classes in more ways than one. They 

 suft'er for recognition as among the forces of society, and 

 there is nothing to-day that will bring al>out that recognition 

 so emphatically as the promotion of a broader degree of in- 

 telligence among those classes. Stand among the lawyers 

 and the doctors, the politicians and men of force and influence 

 in society to-day in Massachusetts, and do you not believe 

 that the agricultural property of this State would find itself 

 in a more just relation to all the other property of the State 

 if it was represented in your councils with a larger degree 

 of force and intellectual ability? Do you not think that the 

 taxes that agriculture has to pay in proportion to what 

 personal property has to pay in Massachusetts would be 

 adjusted more fairly if agriculture was intellectually the 

 peer of every other })rofession in the State of Massachusetts ? 

 Why, gentlemen, agriculture is suflering everywhere for a 

 lack of the broader cultivation of the intellect. The hands 

 of our farmers are hard enough, God knows, but the heads 

 have not been hardened yet as much as they ought to have 

 been, and there is no way of hardening the head except by 

 using it as you do the hand, that is, by work, and thus you 

 are doino; the hio;hest service to the whole State. In Wis- 



