Evening star., 1901-06-27
WILSON TO FARM SCHOOL BOYS.
Secretary of Agriculture Delivers Ad-
dress at DOylestOwn, Pa.

Secretary of Agriculture Delivers Adj
dress at DoylestOwn. Pa.
Secretary Wilson Of the Department OF
Agriculture delivered the address at the
National Farm School at Doylestown, Pa,
yesterday.
Former President Ralph Blum introduced
Secretary Wilson and took occasion to pay
him a high compliment as the foremost
farmer and the one who has so successfully
carried out the gigantic task set for him
in his department. In part Secretary Will
son said:
There is peculiar interest to all lovers of
industrial educa ton in the efforts being
made at Doylestown to prepare young men
of Jewish blood for farm management. The
wisdom of it requires no argument; it is as
appropriate that those who produce from
the soil should learn about the soil and it's
relation to the plant and the relations of
the plant to the animal. as it is necessary
to train the professional for his speciality.
We have reached the time in cropping and
animal husbandry when it is generally rec
ognized that the best results are had by
those who have observed most and inquired
farthest. You have begun in the right way,
at the right end.
II am delighted to find the children of
Israel doing this work in the sensible and
thorough manner in which they do every
thing they undertake, and without help
from federal or state sources. 1t will have
reflex influence on federal and state insti-
tutions that are in some instances doing
Just as little along these lines as they can
do, without losing their federal and state
benefactions You educate along these lines
because 1t brings your people back to con-
tact with the soil, the plant and the ami
NAL; to contact with nature and the God
OF nature-relations SO intimate and so
prominent in the history of your race.
''The Jew is thoroughbred, with his
tory running back to the time when Abra-
ham dwelt in Ur of the Chaldees and has a
pedigree compared with which modern fam
lily trees are bramble bushes. He can look
back over the centuries and note the effect
OF occupation on his race. Other races
concede his mental acuteness to determine
what Is good for his people. He has been
denied the privilege Of owning the soil by
many shortsighted governments, but his
love of the soil is deathless.' to use the ex-
preston Of one of the founders of this in
stltut1on. He desires to restore the physi-
cal vigor of the race where 1t requires it,
by returning to the early vocation Of its
founders 1t Is wisely resolved that young
men be educated in the sciences and arts
relating to agriculture, and money is con-
tributed fdt that purpose by farseeing and
sooohearted men. No Investment ever made
Dy a people will pay like this one and that
Is venturesome saying in this presence.
AT no time in theI worlds history have
the plant and the animal had as much at
tention as .theyi are onow getting in our
doing something toward a better knowledge
or these two great factors in civilization
me people of the several states and terri
tories are becoming more interested in the
WORK OF research being conducted in their
interest," the Department Of Agriculture is
cooperating with most Of them in the spe-
claltles In which, they are severally inter-
ested, and aims to do work that is beyond
.ne reach or the Individual institution or
neip wnere assistance Is most needed in To-
cal undertakfngSiS II