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training. What I would like to have the thoughtful young man see at 

 this point, is that most of the men who have been trained in agriculture 

 by those who have themselves had a college training in agriculture 

 have not been out of college more than five or six years and are, for the 

 most part, less than thirty years of age. Boards of trustees are re- 

 morseless and, per haps, properly so and men of my training will soon 

 be no longer needed. 



It is fully recognized that the professorial field in agriculture is a 

 distinctly limited one and it would indeed, be a sad commentary upon 

 the cause if it was the only worthy field in agriculture open to a young 

 man. But this much may be said that in the past ten years, while I 

 have been expecting to see this theoretically limited field supplied, 

 the opportunities have constantly increased in number and improved 

 in character. An illustration from a single state university haveing 

 eighteen courses of study which lead to a degree may be permitted. 

 Twenty of its graduates during the last ten years are now in college 

 positions other than alma mater. Seven of these are from the course in 

 Agriculture. There has not been a year in the past five years that 

 thoroughly trained and thoroughly able agriculturists have not been In 

 demand for positions requiring the highest capabilities. 



Teachers are the first necessity of a school of any kind, but only 

 second to the necessity of teachers is the necessity for something to 

 teach. The sciences have made great strides since 1870, especially the 

 biological sciences. Chemistry had, inid,eed, a (thoroughly established 

 standing and the professor of natural science did the rest. However, 

 mathematics and physics are not mechanics or engineering; physiology 

 is not medicine, and chemistry is not agriculture, however fundamental 

 these may be to the callings in question. 



What did we know about dairying in 1870 that we now teach? Prin- 

 cipally that cows would produce milk in the summer time if the pas- 

 tures were good; that if we stirred some mysterious thing that came on 

 the top of it, called cream, it would turn into butter; or if we addedlthe 

 juices of a calf's stomach to the milk, it fould turn into cheese — all of 



