AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. I teach The earth and soil To them that toil, The hill and fen To common men That live right here; The plants that grow The winds that blow The streams that run In rain and sun Throughout the year; And then I lend, Through wood and mead Through mold and sod, Out unto God, With love and cheer -L. H. Bailey. "The glory of the farmer is that in the division of labor, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last upon his primitive activity. He stands close to nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which Iwas not he causes to be. The first farmer was the first man, and all his historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. Men do not like hard work, but every man has an exceptional respect for tillage and a feeling that this is the original calling of his race; that he himself is only excused from it by some circumstances which made him delegate it for a time to other hands. If he has not some skill which recommends him to the farmer, some product for which the farmer will give him corn, he must himself return into his due place among the planters. And the profession has in all eyes its ancient charm, as standing nearest to God, the first cause." -Ralph Waldo Emerson. Chairman of Farm Committee of Board of Regents of University of Wisconsin 1895-1897. Died September 17, 1912. Bor M A Report of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Closing Farmers' March 12, 13, 14, 1912. The wealth and strength of a country are its population, and 'the Why I Believe in State Aid for Highways, Senator John S. Donald. |