CYRIL GEORGE HOPKINS 



source of prosperity. We miss and mourn him thus, but first as a 

 friend always loyal, helpful, hopeful, and kind." 



E. S. Bayard 

 Editor, National Stockman and Farmer 

 (Extract from an editorial) 



"It was more than twenty-five years ago, and a very rough late 

 October day, when the Associate Editor of the Missouri Farmer 

 first met Cyril G. Hopkins, then a young man just beginning his work 

 teaching Agricultural Science in the Illinois College of Agriculture. 

 The ground was wet and frozen, but the young professor insisted 

 that he accompany the plain farmer over the fields to show him the 

 experiments in soil fertility then just well started, and which have 

 since become world famous. 



"He promised to keep that farmer advised as to the results of 

 these experiments, and he did not forget that promise as many other 

 busy men would have done. Every phase of it has been reported to 

 him in bulletins, books and private letters. 



"We have met in these fields a good many times since that cold 

 day, and have seen the work of that one great man which has meant 

 so much to those who have followed his teachings. A little more than 

 two years ago, on a fine June day, I walked over these same fields with 

 him the last time we ever met ; two men who were getting gray and 

 old, he to go, a famous man, into the Old World to help solve the 

 war problems for them there as he had been assisting in solving those of 

 our own farmers here so many years, I to go back to my farm and 

 to my desk hoping to apply some of the things he had taught me and 

 to spread the gospel of a better agriculture among my fellow farmers." 



C. D. Lyon 



(Editorial in the Missouri Farmer) 



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