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tending along our coast from New York to Florida pour 

 out the pure waters of life and bless multitudes of 

 people and make their homes happy. The clouds of 

 the highlands are tributary to the cottages of the coast, 

 and the rocks deeply seated in the foundations of the 

 earth carry them on their way. 



Through long years of his life Professor Cook was 

 engaged in investigations relating to agricultural indus- 

 tries. The interests affected by these investigations are 

 vast, for they are at the foundation of all prosperity. 

 The facts and principles to be investigated are multi- 

 farious and complex, relating to climate, to soil, to vege- 

 tal life and animal life, and to the relations of all these 

 to human life. Science has done much for modern indus- 

 tries in manufacturing, in mining, in transporting, and 

 in commerce; the hidden powers of the world have been 

 discovered and tamed; but science has done compara- 

 tively little for agriculture, and Dr. Cook was one of the 

 founders of a vast system of research which has now 

 been established throughout the land on a comprehensive 

 and symmetric plan. Through the agency of these 

 founders, of whom Doctor Cook was one of the leaders, 

 experiment stations have been established in every State 

 of the Union, endowed by national and State grants, and 

 the greatest army of investigators ever organized under 

 the sun is now at work on the complex problems of agri- 

 cultural science. This was the crowning labor of a long 

 and fruitful life. It has been a quiet, but vigorous and 

 efficient movement, and the people do not realize what 

 has been done. The labors in this cause of this beneficent 

 friend of mankind were untiring. They were conducted 

 among men of affairs, in the seats of learning, in the 

 State legislatures and in the national Congress. Every- 

 where his benign influence was exerted and felt ; his 

 counsels were taken with delight, and he became a leader 



