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The farmer who })roves himself fitted to lead and deserving of 
respect will secure leadership and honor, and will have done good 
by displacing at least one of the many unworthy men who seek 
prominence among the farmers, for the advancement of their own 
selfish ends. It is well to take the time required. The world has 
been cared for all these centuries, and it can do without us until 
we have gotten fully equippped for our work. I would be glad to 
see a large number of the graduates of this institution, as in the 
past, go out from it to direct farm work, and would not feel that 
there was any danger of their not finding a full field for all their 
knowledge. 
Not only does an education, such as it is the design of this col¬ 
lege to give, fit one to better do the work of the actual, working 
farmer, and make it more probable that he shall reap a full reward 
for that work, but it will also fit him, in whole or in part, for other 
pursuits closely connected with agriculture; callings useful, honor¬ 
able and giving promise of good rewards to at least a chosen few. 
Of these may be named, first, that of the teacher of agriculture. 
State and other agricultural colleges and schools, of which we are 
to have more, ought to be able to look to the graduates of such an 
institution as this for the men best fitted to give the instruction 
they desire for their students. And so of the agricultural press, 
the agency by which the largest number of farmers can most read¬ 
ily and effectively be reached. It ought to be able to look to this 
and similar institutipns for the men to fill the vacancies in the ranks 
of its editors. Few fields present a brighter prospect for useful¬ 
ness and influence than does this. In veterinary surgery is a field 
with grand opportunities for a young man of education, of talent, of 
character, who will join the few now at work in elevating a noble 
calling from the disrepute into which ignorance and dishonesty 
have brought it. With growing taste and appreciation of the 
beautiful is found increasing opportunity for landscape gardeners, 
if so qualified as to deserve the name. Of the same general class 
may be named the agricultural engineer, and manager of estates. 
We may look for more partnerships between money on the one 
hand and scientific and practical knowledge of farming on the 
other, than we have seen in the past. 
And even for the merchant, the lawyer, the physician or the 
minister who is to do his work in this or other western states, in 
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