EXHIBITION OF 1871—ANNUAL ADDRESSES. 
So 
But we must keep the farmer’s Yanks full of intelligent men 
and women, while supplying the great demand in all other di¬ 
rections. Hence I will exhort at this point, particularly, after 
Mr. Holton’s sermon to the young me.i before me, and drive, 
if I can, the nail still deeper into the wood, and most earnestly 
urge the youth of these American farmers’ sons, to walk in the 
footsteps of their fathers. It is a mistake very, very often, to 
come to the city for employment. 
Abbott Lawrence, the great Boston merchant, once stated 
that 11 ninety-five out of every hundred business men, even in 
staid and sober Boston, failed in business.” Where is the 
bankrunt farmer, if he is a farmer ? 
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We asked some time since of the students of our State Uni¬ 
versity, of which Col. Hinkley, your secretary, was one of the 
regents—[It was suggested to the speaker that Col. Hinkley 
was president. “ i beg pardon,” was the response. I ought to 
have known better. He was once secretary, I believe,” turning 
to the president. The latter, smiling, shook his head. “Then,” 
said the speaker, a he must have jumped at once into the oner¬ 
ous position he so ably fills.”] 
I was saying we asked these students, two hundred in num¬ 
ber, what profession they were going to choose in life. How 
many do you suppose responded they were going to be farm¬ 
ers ? Kemember that three-fourths were sons of farmers. 
Only five. 
A change is taking place. The agricultural department is 
drawing students who intend to enrich themselves with univer¬ 
sity culture and then return to digging still more the most- 
ancient and honorable of employments. 
Congress has shown great wisdom in making such liberal 
appropriations of land for the training of intelligent husband¬ 
men. Make them intelligent and you educate the nation. 
I must conclude. You will allow me a word of criticism 
which I have made elsewhere before. I confess to a weakness 
for a fast horse. I believe in motion and locomotion. But we 
must not, in the expressive, if not very classical, language of 
