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everything that money could buy. A poor man cannot farm 

 that way. A poor man has got to teach school or edit a 

 paper (no, I do not mean edit a paper) to make money 

 enough to farm on that scale. It took me a number of 

 years to get down to common things and get started on the 

 practical side of life. I said this young man who came to 

 me (my brother-in-law) knew very little about farming, but 

 he was ready to learn and begin anywhere. My honest con- 

 viction is that if I took a graduate of a college onto my farm, 

 the first thing he would want would be five hundred dollars 

 for a hot-house, six hundred or a thousand dollars for this or 

 that. Think of striking an editor of an agricultural paper 

 for a thousand dollars ! I cannot conceive of it. I speak 

 frankly because I believe these meetings are where we should 

 come face to face. I do think and say that our agricultural 

 colleges, my own college among the rest, have not been 

 reaching down and helping those l)oys who have nothing to 

 start with. I may be wrong, or stir up a hornet's nest, but 

 these are my convictions. With my limited means, building 

 from an ash heap, give me the boy who knows nothing, and 

 who is willing to work with his hands, rather than the boy 

 who has been educated to do things with capital and with 

 tools of the highest type. 



Mr. P. E. Davis (of Taunton, Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, 1894). Do you think a knowledge of scientific 

 agriculture prevents a man from working with his hands or 

 working with inferior tools or working under difficulties of 

 any kind? I believe thoroughly in the agricultural college, 

 and I believe it is in the man, not in the college, that makes 

 him want a thousand-dollar hot-house or engine. I do not 

 think the college intends to instil into a man any such 

 ideas. I think it is the man, not the college. 



Mr. CoLLiNGWooD. I take men as I find them. I cannot 

 make them over. Let me go back five generations, and I 

 think I could bring out a pretty good sort of a man. I am 

 frankly stating what I believe. I have yet to learn of any 

 graduate of an agricultural college who has gone directly out 

 of the class room upon a farm, without capital, and gone to 

 work with his hands and been successful. I can name fifty 

 such men who work for other people. When I find such a 



