15 MY LIFE 



and practice of agriculture, agricultural chemistry, English, 



mechanics, use <>f tools, etc. The girls and women learn 

 horticulture, cooking, domestic economy, poultry rearing, etc. 

 In the evening 1 strolled about the town; no liquor-shops, but 

 abundance of "real estate" and loan offices, the former a 



mmon mode of gambling in Western America. 



Xext morning (Sunday) Professor Marlott called with Mr. 

 Hogg, a young Englishman farming here, who had a ranch 

 of a thousand acres twelve miles out. lie offered to take me 

 for a drive. We went a few miles round the city, by fine 

 grassy fields on the improved prairie, but saw very few 

 flowers. Mr. Hogg complained of the climate ; the long very 

 cold winter, often 20 below zero, Fahr., and the hot dusty 

 summer. There are only a few pleasant months in winter 

 and spring, few nice houses, and no gardens. After dinner 

 I took a walk alone across the river to some woods and 

 alluvial meadows, but all very dusty and no flowers. After 

 tea. Professor E. A. Popenhoe, a botanist, called in his buggy 

 and took me for a drive to the top of a rocky bluff where there 

 were a number of interesting plants, of which a few were in 

 flower, among them Tradescantia virginica, a Sisyrinchium, a 

 yellow Baptisia, etc. 



On Monday morning I went to the college to put up my 

 diagrams, and was then, of course, taken over the buildings 

 from top to bottom. Everybody wanted to show me every- 

 thing in their departments — the clothes the girls made, the 

 nice cupboards they kept the clothes in, the store-rooms for 

 flour, potatoes, sugar, spices, jams, etc., the kitchen and all its 

 arrangements. Then every class-room, and all the classes, 

 and all the teachers. Then out-of-doors to see the sheds and 

 stables, the cattle and the horses, and the machines ; how the 

 calves and the cows are fed ; to inspect the tool and work-shops, 

 the gardens, the greenhouses, the tree-nursery, etc., which lat- 

 ter interested me most. 



I spent the afternoon at the hotel writing letters, and in 

 the evening I went to tea with President Fairchild — a regular 

 country high tea; cold meat, oranges, strawberries, cakes, 

 weak green tea, etc. We talked politics, and especially pro- 



