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and he said that means go preach Christ, and I am going to do it. His 

 friend says "Are you sure?" "Oh, yes; don't you think so," the preacher 

 said. "What does it mean?" 'Go pick cotton." So if a boy comes to 

 us and won't study, he can go home and pick cotton; but if he has got 

 the work in him we would like hirn to study. 



What the University cannot do in agriculture will depend on two 

 things, or really one: The support the people of Illinois will give the 

 College, and I say I don't know of any State in the Union where the 

 farmers all over the State are supporting the College of Agriculture as 

 the farmers of Illinois. The infection is working. I guess it is a dis- 

 ease, but you would be surprised if you was in the office and saw all 

 the letters that come. The office work has doubled within a year, 

 quadrupled in three years. Last year we nearly killed our stenogra- 

 pher. This year we have two and are pretty nearly killing them with 

 office work now. 



The farmers institute was instrumental in going over the State and 

 selecting for us in each community, a boy of the right stuff and recom- 

 mending him to the trustees, and we have got nearly 100 of them. Mr. 

 Coolidge, he sent us six or seven of the right kind. Some of these 

 boys say, "I thought I would come and stay a month or two and see." 

 Well we would get them to work and I heard from several of them that 

 wrote home. "I believe you know more about agriculture than all these 

 fellows," writing home and saying: "There are quite a goodi many 

 things and I guess I will stay." And the next time his father told me 

 one of the boys said: "Iguess' I wiM stay in this semester." He will 

 stay the whole year and we are pretty sure he is going to stay four years: 



Agriculture is tremendously expensive. You have done something 

 that no other State has ever thought of doing. This good work will go 

 on. As we put in experiments and teach things, it will take more money. 

 We have not got all the money we will ever need. When the time comes 

 that we can do more than the funds will allow, we will have to write to 

 get more. If we don't do right, let us know. Every citizen is on a free 

 footing for open correspondence with everybody. This is new business. 



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