a plea for good citizenship and patriotism, as exemplified by these 

 two great Americans. It was voted by the students of both colleges 

 to be the best speech of the evening. 



Shall we ever forget him as a writer and public speaker ? He was 

 clear, earnest, often brilliant, and always sensible ; but if he hap- 

 pened to be pleading for his beloved College or for the cause of 

 agriculture, then it was that he rose to the occasion, convincing and 

 unanswerable ! 



May I again be personal? Perhaps no one has had closer busi- 

 ness relations with Professor Stockbridge than I during the past 

 thirty years. I came to know him intimately in a business way. I 

 touched him on the money side, and it is said that if one would 

 know a man's true character, one must have financial transactions 

 with him. In all my thirty years' association wirh Professor Stock- 

 bridge I never found him sharp or underhanded. He always took a 

 broad, clear, business-like view of every situation, and was fair and 

 liberal in his dealings. When he placed the Stockbridge formulas in 

 in my hands — I was then a young man of twenty-five — I could but feel 

 that it was a mark of confidence, for there were large and rich concerns 

 in New York that had applied to him for the opportunity to manu- 

 facture them under his name. It was a gray, cold December day 

 when the trade was closed in his woodshed office. I can see him 

 now, with his long legs stretched out, toasting his shins at the little 

 old broken-down stove which would hold only a stick at a time, and 

 I remember wondering how he ever got time to write his lectures and 

 keep that stove going. When he was about to sign the agreement, 

 he remarked : " I know you ; you have been one of my boys and one 

 of our College family, and I think I'll take my chances with you." I 

 hope he never regretted the step, and I think he did not, for he vol- 

 untarily remained a director in our company, in which he took a 

 great interest, to the day of his death. And let me say, in passing, 

 that he always insisted upon our business being done on a high 

 plane, and was as jealous of the good report of the company as of 

 the formulas which bore his name. He set a high standard and ex- 

 pected us to live up to it. 



It will be well to record here that the first money received by 

 Professor Stockbridge in royalties for the use of his name (his for- 

 mulas were given to the world for anybody to use) was devoted to 

 experimental work at Amherst, which practically laid the foundation 



