30 HERDS AND FLOCKS AND HORSES. 



overworked, overrun, stale, useless, unfit and unable to enjoy 

 the wealth he has amassed, and at forty or fifty years of age, 

 rich in money, but penniless in health. Is the game worth the 

 candle, when with healthy exercise, a level head and an easily 

 attainable stock breeding knowledge, a man can amass a for- 

 tune sufficient for the requirements of any normal mind at 

 an early age, with comparatively no mental wear and tear, and 

 in early manhood, not only be independent of the cares and 

 worries of life, but rest happy in the reflection that he has made 

 his money honestly, and live to a ripe old age in the bosom 

 of his family to enjoy it? 



The towns and cities are stocked to overflowing with the 

 dregs of society, glutted with the refuse of worthlessness, and 

 filled to repletion with the youth of the country who have been 

 lured there by stories of gold, only to be swamped in the 

 avalanche of humanity that is hurled from dreams of glory 

 into the whirlpool of despair. 



The agricultural colleges of this country, after years and 

 years of patient, uphill labor, preparing the people of America 

 for conditions they knew must come and are now upon us, must 

 contemplate with intense satisfaction the fruits of their labors 

 and for the rich harvest of agricultural knowledge they are 

 yielding. 



The tremendous area of this country, which doubtless 

 fathered the thought that there was more land than would 

 ever be cultivated and turned into usefulness, was accountable 

 for arguments against the necessity for scientific farming and 

 advanced methods of agriculture. Present day conditions 

 however, have shown how far wrong these people were, and 

 how right the brainy, farseeing men who anticipated conditions 

 as they now exist, and which, with all their farsightedness, 

 they are at present only partially prepared to meet. What 

 these pioneers of up-to-date agriculture have accomplished is 

 written down in the splendid institutions of the country, and 

 stands silhouetted in the golden sunset as a never crumbling 

 monument of their splendid hopes and glorious achievements. 



