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station is made up of men; they must be trained in the agricul- 

 tural colleges. Experimental stations do not train men ; they use 

 them up. One of our troubles is to keep men in the experimental 

 stations. No one but a young man can stand it; our men get 

 tired of it. It is harder and harder to get young men to go into 

 this work. The only place they can be trained is the college. 

 Then you will have to import men from other states to man your 

 own experimental station, to fill up your experimental station. 

 That is the next thing. Now I know you do not want it that 

 way. 



You see what is going wrong; we are going mad after re- 

 search work and experiments. I am a director as well as the 

 president of the agricultural college. It is the college that does 

 the teaching. It is the college that prepares the materials for the 

 experimental subjects. Your experimental stations depend upon 

 their being manned by trained men. I read a bulletin and said 

 it looks like an experience instead of an experiment. That will 

 not do for Illinois. What ought to be done, I will tell you, and 

 you will agree with me. We have experimented with this thing 

 long enough. We have found out by experience that the college 

 cannot stand competition with the experimental work. What you 

 as practical dairymen want is to have your questions answered. 

 We want more money than has ever been put into the college. 

 One man said, "Hang the students." We cannot hang these 

 young fellows ; we must have them. You must not forget the 

 boys; I feel they are more worth saving than we are. Most of 

 us were born too early, and the quicker we get out the better it 

 will be for the boys. They will have a harder time than we have 

 had, because these boys will have to do business with a popula- 

 tion double what it is today. It is awful. Years before these 

 young men are old men the population will be two hundred mil- 

 lion people and there will be a whole lot of questions to answer. 

 It is not fair for us to use all of the money to answer our ques- 

 tions and neglect these young people. This is what ought to be 

 done : we must revise our definition of a College of Agriculture ; 

 we must mean by a College of Agriculture a whole faculty and 



