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more : not only do they have this system, but they have dif- 

 ferent things. For example, there are blaeksmith schools, 

 from which professors are sent out. And when do they 

 give their instructions? On Sunday, after the people have 

 been to their church and have their afternoons. They have 

 itinerant professors in France and Germany, whose duty it 

 is to go about into all the little dift'erent villages and give 

 instruction, and they usually take the time when the peo[)le 

 are free, so that it will not encroach upon their time. 



One thing more : you take France, Germany and Bel- 

 gium, little bits of places, and see what a system of agri- 

 cultural schools they have. They have a great many such 

 schools, and here in Massachusetts we have simply one. 

 You take all the other States, and they have simply one 

 college. You want to commence at the bottom and lead 

 right up, and until you do it you will not get the best re- 

 sults from agricultural education. 



What are they doing in Denmark? Their butter com- 

 mands the very highest price. The governor has appointed 

 certain persons whose business it is to give instruction in 

 the line that you are going to hear about to-morrow\ In 

 Denmark, in England, in Ireland, they send out what they 

 call their travelling dairy. It carries a dairy-maid, a pro- 

 fessor and one or two assistants, and they travel around 

 from place to place to give practical instruction. I sim- 

 ply wanted to say this in continuation of what Mr. Atherton 

 said. 



Mr. Swift. In view of the fact that we have had this 

 very interesting discussion, in which Mr. Russell led off and 

 the speaker followed, and which came in consequence of Mr. 

 Atherton saying " wool," I want to thank him now for 

 saying " wool." 



Mr. L. W. West (of Hadley). President (Joodell has 

 just spoken of farm life in Europe. A laboring man there 

 gets a dollar a week wages How can anything compete 

 with a dollar a week? Mr. Hamlin, the assistant secretary 

 of the treasury, says a man in Japan gets ten cents a day 

 and a woman five cents in some of their manufacturing es- 

 tal)lishments. How can anything compete with that? A 

 Congressman from Connecticut says that 95 per cent of the 



