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tion; what he wants is facts. If I should tell you that a cow was 

 red, white and blue, it would not make any difference. You do 

 not care for anyone's opinion; it is facts you want. We must 

 study within the known facts of the subject. Ten years ago it 

 was different than it is today, and ten years from now it will 

 be different from what it is today. I would not want to tell you 

 what butter making was twenty-five years ago, it would take 

 too long. What was called good dairying twenty years ago 

 would not pass muster today and dairying today will not ans- 

 wer ten years from today. 



If the College of Agriculture is going to get ready it must 

 anticipate and get information by experimentation. One of the 

 most common things right here is this, it isn't practical and it 

 won't do. They pronounce judgment at once. A good many 

 things have come to pass that at one time were not believed 

 possible. 



I knew twelve years ago we could not have rural delivery; 

 it would cost too much, but we have it today. It is right here 

 now all around us. If any one had told me twenty years ago we 

 would be telephoning to Rio Janeiro I would not have believed - 

 him, and what we will be doing in ten years from now we dare\ 

 not guess; but if the University is going to be ready it must do 

 some experimental work, whether it pays or not. 



The University of Illinois is doing investigation work, that 

 is why the State of Illinois has put up a great deal of money 

 to answer questions that will be asked twenty years from now; 

 not to answer present day questions but questions that will be 

 asked five or ten years from now. The State and the Institution 

 that can look farthest ahead is the State or the Institution that 

 is going to come out on top. Those are the people who will 

 have the advantage. 



A great deal of our work is experimental work, trying to 

 find what you will want to know when the new times come. The 

 University has no way of getting information quick; we have 

 no wireless telegraphing system with the Almighty. If we are 

 going to find out we must resort to the methods he has given 



