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presiding officer this afternoon will be President H. H. 

 GooDELL, of the Massachusetts Ao:ricultural College. 



A number of persons have expressed a desire to visit the 

 laro;e shoe shoi^s here. I am desired to o-ive notice that 

 to-morrow morning, at half-past eight, if they will meet at 

 the office of Mr, Prouty, right around the corner, they will 

 be shown throuoh his building. 



President Goodell. When Mr. Cornell founded that 

 great university in New York State, Cornell University, he 

 stated his purpose in this broad and liberal way : "I would 

 desire to found a university in which any person can gain 

 instruction in any branch of knowledge." Pursuant to that 

 plan a chair of agriculture was established there, and it is 

 one of the most important in Cornell University. I take 

 great pleasure in introducing to you this afternoon the 

 gentleman who holds that chair, — one whom we have come 

 to look upon as one of the fathers of agricultural education, 

 one whose pupils are known far and wide by the good and 

 thorough Avork they are doing, and one who is now clinching 

 his instruction in the recitation room l)y practical work on 

 his own farm. I take great pleasure in introducing to you 

 this afternoon Prof. I. P. Roberts of Cornell University. 



Professor Roberts. Mr. Chairman, 3^ou cannot imagine 

 the thankfulness that I experience in standing liefore you 

 to-day. This very kind introduction which you have given 

 me, this very hearty reception from your farmers, who know 

 probably more about agriculture than I do, — at least in 

 many of its branches, for no one mind can compass all, — is 

 Aery gratifying to me. When I look back to my first 

 reception on a public stage in New York, it makes me feel 

 that we are making advancement, and I feel rejoiced, I feel 

 thankful; for, ]\Ir. Chairman, the first thne I appeared on a 

 stage to deliver a })ublic address in the State of New York, 

 coming as I did from a Western college, I naturally suj)- 

 posed that the good people of New York were far advanced 

 in intelligence, and it behooved me to gird my loins like a 

 man and acquit myself and the university which I repre- 

 sented most creditably ; and so, ])rother farmers, I selected 

 this sul)ject, " Better Pniildings and Warm Water for Dairy 

 Cattle." I wrote a very learned, as I thought, and a very 



