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four years of my life — four years of hardship and priva- 

 tion — in an agricultural college. But I do think that our 

 agricultural college system is not perfect by any means. 



Mr. Hersey. Is anything perfect? 



Mr. Colling WOOD. If I am not mistaken, our agricult- 

 ural colleges have in the past tended to make classes among 

 the farmers in this way : they have been able to take but a 

 limited number of students, and I do not think they reach 

 down in the homes of the lowly people and try to bring them 

 up in large numbers. I can look back, and I remember that 

 the feeling I had when I left college was that I had given up 

 four years of hard work, that I had not put a dollar in my 

 pocket during those years, and all the boys had been at work 

 laying aside from two to three hundred dollars a year. I 

 did not feel that I could go back and begin as a farm hand. 

 I had got to make that knowledge earn me more money. I 

 had got to make it useful to me. I found there were only 

 two ways in which I could do it ; one was in working for a 

 man who had capital, the other was to get hold of capital 

 myself. In other words, I do sincerely believe that the 

 agricultural college has been of more benefit to the capitalists 

 and the corporations than it has been to the individuals. I 

 felt it in my heart that I must go to work for some one who 

 had capital, or in some other line of business, to earn the 

 money with which to buy a farm. I got that idea at an agri- 

 cultural college. I do not say the college was to blame for 

 it. I believe one of the first thoughts of a graduate from an 

 agricultural college is to secure a position at a college or 

 experiment station, or with some man who can pay him a 

 salary, or work at something that will enable him to start a 

 farm as he would like to start it. 



Adjourned at 12.35 p.m. 



Afternoon Session. 

 The meeting was called together at 2 o'cIock by Secretary 

 Sessions, who said : Ladies and gentlemen : I want to 

 express, as I think I am warranted in doing, the feeling of 

 the Board of Agriculture that this meeting has been a suc- 

 cess, and we want to congratulate ourselves and the people 



