HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, 461 
generation is going to see a revolution in the matter of agricultural 
education. I look forward to the day when we shall have agriculture 
taught in the common schools of the State, and when, having gotten 
such work in the high schools, the pupils can then go forward to the 
agricultural college of Cornell University. 
Mr. Bowie. Legislation in Alabama has made it compulsory to 
teach certain branches of agriculture in all rural oeteule in every 
county of the State. 
President ScuurMANN. Yes; and that may be done elsewhere, but the 
point is, gentlemen, that you must have the men. The men are every- 
thing. hat we are aiming at in Cornell is to turn out men who are 
capable of teaching agriculture, and then to send them as mission- 
aries all over the States. 
The next sentence is as follows: 
We sent a man down to start them in soil physics. I inquired how he was getting 
along, and found that he got 75 students within a few days, and had to shut the door. 
Now, that means this, that the Secretary of Agriculture was good 
enough to detail Mr. Bonsteel to Cornell to give instruction in soil 
physics. We.had not the money to care for this subject, and the State 
of New York was not giving it to us, and it was exceedingly kind of 
the Secretary to send Mr. Bonsteel to us and I appreciate his action, 
and I wish here to express my gratitude for it, and I hope the com- 
mittee will stand by him in this policy. It is only fair to say that Mr. 
Bonsteel, excellent teacher though he is, did not draw 75 students to 
Cornell. On the contrary, the students were all there, and what 
happened was this: We offered a number of elective courses and 
among these new studies was soil physics, and 75 students out of the 
276 students in the college of agriculture elected this course. 
Now, that was a very meritorious action on the part of the Secre- 
tary, and I should think it good policy to follow in the future, to 
detail experts on agricultural specialties to different colleges in the 
country. But my regret, and I regret it infinitely, is that such a meri- 
toriout act should have been in any way coupled with such a statement 
as I have had to traverse here to day. 
J thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, and unless 
some gentlemen of the committee have questions to.ask me that is all 
I desire to say. 
Mr. Brooxs. What is the total amount that Cornell University 
receives from the Government—#34,000, or is that from the land grant 
only ? 
Presideat Scuurmann. The $34,000 is the income from the land 
grant only. We then receive also, under the second Morrill Act, 
$25,000, making altogether $59,000 for the purposes of agriculture, 
the mechanic arts, and the sciences related thereto. 
Mr. Apams. And military science? 
President ScourMann. Yes; that is included in the act of 1862 also. 
Mr. Apams. Besides the $15,000? ; ; 
President ScourMaNN. You mean for an experiment station? It is 
$13,500 in our case. Let me repeat that, apart from this $13,500 for 
the experiment station, we receive $59,000 on behalf of agriculture, 
the mechanic arts, and the allied sciences. -Let us make a very liberal 
assumption; let us assume that although the seven or eight subjects 
mentioned in the acts of Congress were in the minds of the legislators, 
