Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-14

Glass OF Sixty Graduated-A Strong
and Thriving School-Gymna.
sium Need
Special to oTimes-Republican.
Deg Moines, June 14.-"There is no
better market than that furnished by
the American workingman," said Sec
lretary James Wilson of the department
of agriculture, as he passed thru Des
Moines yesterday on his way from
Ames where he delivered the COM
mencement address at the Agricultural
College, to Manhattan, Kas., where he
performs a like service for the agricul-
tural college there. $50 we are devoting
our efforts largely to improving the
\ methods of production and the quality
and variety OF the American farm. We
4 are still working to introduce American
products abroad, but we find after all
i that the home market is about as good
4 a market as can be found The Ameri-
can workingman lives well and receives
A wages, that enable him to buy in aEund-
\ ance the best products of the farm Just
now we are trying to introduce sweet
Il potatoes into England. They never saw
sweet potatoes before and do not know
4 what they are. We have sent over a
A lot of the best that we could get in Vir-
gina and other southern states and Will
!. TRY to teach the Englishman to like
them.
we have an agent in China. up on
the plains OF Thibet at the source of the
I Yangtse- Kiang river, looking for the or
|iginal peach tree. You know that is
where the peach tree came from, and we
want to go back to the source of supply
and see if we can not get a peach tree
for America that will have more vital
ity. We are introducing the date palm
into Arizona, and it is proving very sue
cessful. There is no doubt dates can be
lsproduced successfully there. 1t costs a
Z lot of money to get a start, but we think
after we get supply of trees it tmay be
made to pay.
Secretary Wilson told the young men
I and women at the Agricultural College
! some wholesome facts, and put before
them clearly the purpose for which that
! great institution exists. Mr.. Wilson'S
! speech was largely plea for the man
8 who works in the field with his coat off,
= Inc III tIlls
q tion, the secretary said was calculated
to help this man and to prepare youns
: men and women for the fighting line il
q life. Tho universities. he declared, dc
;, llno1 contribute to keeping the baiance
y of trade in our favor, and he expressed
u the opinion that a great deal of the edu.
Ecation of this day is not for those who
y pay the most taxes. He laid strong
: emphasis upon the absolute necessity o
i leducation for farming in these days
: University men, he said, sneer at ed1l'
cation for the farmer. and say there i:
i nothing to teach a farmer but botan!
and chemistry. In answer to- this sug-
gestion the secretary pointed to the sue
Z cess of modern teaching in stock breed
ing and feeding to meet market condi
tions and competition abroad Aericul
- ,ture, he said, lays all science at its feet
Ito feed the people economically ant
lwell, to enable our manufacturers I
:. compete with the work. the farmer mus
"a understand the laws of nature govern
: ling the production of plants and tn
= breeding and feeding of animals" TIL
le secretary suggested a college catechisn
II of practical agricultural Dairy ant
Z, stock questions and said that the youn
.s man should know whether the college Il
: proposed to attend will answer thes
= qucs,ions. because without correct an
swers to them he can not succeed i
y farming. Four years in an agriculture
college would make all these thing
7 plain. These colleges have met the eN
ie pectations of the statesmen who plan
- ned them by lifting the standard of tn
es tiller of the sol. Agriculture lacks
university where all these subjects ma
: :, be studied daily by the best experts. bt
=. the department of agriculture is.such a
~ institution With its many department,
- under the direction of famous scientit
= experts.
en- NO man and no nation lives for Il
n n self alone. Successful teaching is ,
ie govern ourselves and produce somethin
% that somebody wants. University me
:. are so numerous they jostle each 9th,
ny in their efforts to get into places
=; earn living. We do not need more me
eu in the professions. but there is a gre;
~ need Of better education of the produ
er,. This need is shown in fields and
IS the stock yards. There Isl room and 70
tune for the educated farmer. Your
ne ne men are in demand in our island posse
~ sions, especially in agriculture and M
nc chanics. Engineers are wanted ever.
-, where. Expansion began, not With Il
- 1ua treaty OF Paris, but in the education
y ' the people. You. young men, are the r
te suit of the best education along yo
line in the United States. Do not thil
n of the day before yesterday, but of t
morrow and the next day. and remer
~, = Der always that the people of Iowa tai
% =, no second place anywhere
ae Secretary Wilson spoke with gre
~. pride and satisfaction of the Agricl
lus ~ tural College, which has more than do
~ bled its student population within t
last eight years, and now has 96J st
dents and graduating class of cigh
this year. Ir 1891 when DR.. Beardshe
In went to the college just one stude
re- sought the agricultural course. NJ
m nearly half the students are taking
ka. In the language of Secretary Wilson,
sin is now the creates. beacon light of a
lal gicultural education, recognized tn
$50 the country and the world with stude1
in coming from all states and countrie
tn The collegesis getting its - ye
M adjusted to correspond with . .;s
tutions. This has been a slow at.a We
on difficult task, but 1t has resulted
to greatly increasing the attendan
w. There is no summer school at Am
Ice strictly speaking but the fall term
rer, gins Aug. %. President Beardshear
his short address at the close Of