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of the professor of chemistry at the Agricultural College to 

 try experiments ; and yet the farmers of the Commonwealth 

 feel that that is to us the " chief end of man " ; that the pro- 

 fessor of agriculture and the professor of chemistry are there 

 to experiment for the farmers of the Commonwealth. I do 

 not object to your idea, farmers, that the Agricultural Col- 

 lege is there for the benefit of the farmers of the Common- 

 wealth ; but when you claim my services to work for you 

 directly in the way of experimenting ; when you claim the 

 services of the professor of chemistry to work for you directly, 

 I say we are private individuals. I have my specific assigned 

 duty at the college, and so has the professor of chemistry, 

 just exactly like the professor of modern languages and the 

 professor of English literature. Each one has his assigned 

 duty, every hour is occupied, and we are under the orders of 

 the governing powers of the college. They do not assign me 

 any time to experiment ; they do not assign Dr. Goessmann 

 any time to experiment. They do not pay any of the expenses 

 of my experiments ; they do not pay any of the expenses of 

 his experiments ; and yet I find Dr. Goessmann at work early 

 and late out in the vineyard, feeding grape-plants with this 

 and that ; I find him working early and late in the labo- 

 ratory, going through the most tedious and most exhaust- 

 ive analyses to learn certain things about feeding grapes with 

 certain elements ; analyzing the seed, the skin, the pulp, the 

 juice, and analyzing the vine. But that is no part of his busi- 

 ness as a college professor. He has all his hours employed 

 with his classes, and this is entirely outside work, simply 

 because the man has the love of the thing in him and cannot 

 let it alone. Wait, gentlemen, until he has had a few more 

 years to work, and you will have something from these experi- 

 ments with the grape that will be worth your while to know. 

 But that is the work of Dr. Goessmann as an individual, not 

 the work of Dr. Goessmann as professor of chemistry at the 

 Agricultural College. So with the professor of agriculture. 

 All his hours are employed in his specific routine work., He 

 is tied to the school-bell. All his experiments with fertilizers, 

 and everything else, are because he cannot let them alone. 

 That is the reason why. 



