2 1 8 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



"How then can that want be supplied?" 



"In answering this question, I shall endeavor to present, with all pos- 

 sible frankness and clearness, the outlines of impressiions and convic- 

 tions that have been gradually de epening in my own mind for the past 

 twenty years, and let them pass for whatever the true friends of the cause 

 may think themi worth." 



"And I answer first negatively, that this want cannot be supplied by 

 any of the existing institutions for the professional classes, nor by any 

 incidental appendage attached to them as a mere secondiary department. 



"We need a University for the industrial classes in each of the states,, 

 with their ccnsequent subordinate institutes and high schools, in each of 

 the counties and towns. The object of these institutes should be to ap- 

 ply existing knowledge directly and efficiently to all practical pursuits 

 and professions in life, and to extend the boundaries of our present 

 knowledge in all possible practical directions." 



Foreseeing the changes that v/ould occur in agricultural methods he 

 went on to say: 



"There should be connected with such an institution, in this state, a 

 suflacient quantity of land of variable soils and aspect, for all its needful 

 annual experiments and processes in the great interests of agriculture 

 and horticulture. Buildings of appropriate size and construction for 

 all its ordinary and special uses; a complete philosophical, chemical, 

 anatomical, and industrial apparatus; a general cabinet, embracing 

 everything that relates to, illustratesi, or facilitates any one of thei indus- 

 trial arts. 



"To facilitate the increase and practical application and diffusion of 

 knowledge the professors should conduct, each in his own department, a 

 continual series of annual experiments. 



"Let the professors of physiology and entomology be ever abroad at 

 the proper seasons, with the needful apparatus for seeing all things 

 visible and invisible, and scrutinizing the latent causes of all those 

 blights, blasts, rots, rusts, and mildews which so often destroy the choic- 

 est products of industry, and thereby impare health, wealth, and comfort 

 of millioDS of our fellowmen. Let the professor of chemistry carefully 



