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dairy matters than I otherwise should, but for the fact that it is be- 
corning more and more every year a branch of industry that the- 
"Wiscorisin farmer must turn his attention to. We possibly may 
not compete with southern Illinois and Indiana in raising beef, but 
we can compete with any part of the United States in j^roducing 
fine butter and cheese. If our pastures are not quite as good as 
some in the Mohawk Valley, they can be improved, and we can 
supplement the feed in times of drought, by planting sweet corn 
for our herds. Our cows and their feed cost us less than theirs, and 
thanks to kind nature in this locality for a bountiful supply of pure 
water which, if it does not run by every man’s door, by the invent¬ 
ive genius of man, with the wind mill, we can have it at small cost 
at every desirable place on the farm. 
To science then the farmers are indebted more than man}’- at first 
are willing to admit. The student of nature, in his love for knowl- 
,edge, even in the unexplored regions of space, is every day making 
himself more and more acquainted with the forces of nature which 
control the currents of winds and storms, and if the elements can¬ 
not all be made to obey his will, he so far understands them, that 
we are enabled to shape our course and our wills to be in harmony 
with nature’s laws. The system of meterological records, embrac¬ 
ing storm signals and weather probabilities has saved hundreds 
of lives and millions of treasure. 
To the skill of the scientist and inventor we are indebted for the- 
implements of every day use in the household, in the factory and on 
the farm. Since the days of the old fashioned flail and wooden 
mouldboards, what a gulf between. Intelligent farming is now dig¬ 
nified labor. Mind must be the emancipator, and the farmer who 
reads, studies and thinks, and applies his thought to work, to him 
nature will open up her storehouse of treasure. 
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 
BY G. E. MORROW, 
[Professor of Agriculture, Illiaols Industrial University.] 
In complying with the request of the faculty, that, at the com¬ 
mencement of my work in the university, I should thus publicly 
