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man who has gone to work for himself, I will take off my 

 hat to him. 



Mr. Davis. I would be pleased to step up to Mr. Colling- 

 wood as one of those. I was born on a Maine farm, and I 

 know what work is. I worked my way through college, and 

 I am still working with my hands. 



Mr. CoLLiNGWOOD. I am proud to meet such a man as 

 that. 



Secretary Sessions. We keep them in Massachusetts. 



Mr. Edmund Hersey (of Hingham) . It is evident to me, 

 from the discussion which has been going on for the last half 

 hour, that what I have always supposed to be true has been 

 proved here ; and that is, that no rules can be laid down by 

 which you can run a number of farms alike. You have got 

 to understand your farm ; you have got to understand every- 

 thing in connection with your farm. If a man goes to col- 

 lege, he has the advantage of knowing how to plant and grow 

 crops and how to feed them to the best advantage ; he learns 

 how to select his herd of cattle and how to feed them to the 

 best advantage. When I hear any one speak against our 

 colleges, or who throws out anything which has a tendency 

 to leave on our minds that it is a damage for a boy to go to 

 an agricultural college or that it is not a benefit to him, I 

 always feel that I want to say a word in favor of an educa- 

 tion. Let me tell you that the agriculturist, to be success- 

 ful, requires an education better than that needed in any 

 other profession which man ever followed. You can use the 

 most diversified knowledge on a farm. I could take you to 

 a farm of a few acres where it has been run by direction for 

 more than sixteen years, and the real profits from that farm 

 have come to a point where to-day they will support a small 

 family. Now, why is this? It is simply because intelli- 

 gence has directed the hands that have worked on it. Now 

 let us, as friends of agriculture, remember that we are to 

 work for the uplifting of our fellowmen, and especially our 

 fellow farmers, by giving them a better education, for on that 

 rests the future prosperity of the farmers of New England. 



Mr. CoLLiNGW OOD. I would be sorry to have you people 

 go away and misconstrue what I said about the college. I 

 am a graduate of a college, and proud of the fact that I spent 



