by eight lawyers, afterwards one farmer was added to the Board of Regents. He, it is supposed, and we have a semblance of reason for supposing, had a buzzing in his bonnet. He wanted to be governor of the state. He did not want to quarrel with those who were his coadjutors, or those who promised to help him some time if he would help them many times before. No settled plan! Yes, there is a settled plan. What is it? Get no students and get the income from a certain farm! That is the plan now. Whether it was the plan with those that created it I do not know. It was put there to educate another class besides the farmers. The farmers need more light. They want to go by their own light, not by somebody else's light. When we say we want more light, some pretentious fellow steps forward, as cheeky as the farmers ought to be, and says, "Here is my light; see by that; I have a light that will answer the purpose; pay me a hundred times as much for the use of my light as it would cost you to use your own," and if you are not careful they will blow your light out. If that is not so, I would like to see the man that can successfully deny it. You see I have learned this pretentiousness of these very fellows. We have been breeding cheek.

Like begets like if other conditions are equal. We can make those conditions just what we are a mind to, so we will have like produce like. The farmers should be cheeky, and assert their prerogatives in unmistakable language, and use some very mild intimidation if necessary. Another point he speaks of, which means something to you, only this is put by indirection. "No manure on poor land." He thinks they had not better put any manure on that land. It is very poor land. If you do not have any manure on it, you will raise ideal crops up in the thin air. It is not the object to raise any crops at all. When farmers go there it is intended to disgust them with it. But here some lawyers say it cannot be moved away. If the devil should set up his kingdom here, he would undoubtedly say it could not be moved away. That is the usual pretentiousness in such matters. Why not? The farmers say they can move it away so as to have more light for themselves by themselves. If the sheep were wise, would they employ the wolves to teach them. If the

wolves were wise they would employ none but fat sheep to teach them. Would not two, and perhaps three, blades of grass grow where only one grows now, if the farmers controlled it? Who would have made those two or three blades grow where only one grew before? Not those who say: "Put no manure on it!" as the old Dutchmen used to on the Mohawk - put it on the ice in winter, and let it float away in the spring. You can see the effects of it to-day. They have, a good many of them, taken Greeley's advice and moved west, where they can have virgin soil. They are these fellows that have given this great light. They do not wish to be called parasites. They would wish to be microps-do things so fine we cannot see what they are about. It is a fact that they are doing it, and that cannot be successfully contradicted; but the question whether they have a right to do it, is another question. It has been asserted by some that the brains of the professional man should counterbalance the gold of the taxpayer. If that is so, we have a class that is born to govern and we must submit to them, and a class that is born to work and pay the taxes; two classes, the tax-payer and the taxeater. The better they know it, and the sooner the professional man says it, the more honest we will esteem him to be. Then we will bid farewell to hypocrisy, but as long as he conceals his manner of doing it, as long as he has these state secrets, as long as he practices this monarchy plan, this plan of the ancient oracles, pretending that they get a special knowledge from God, told principally behind a curtain, we cannot believe in their pretentiousness. This science of government, called legal science, had better be known. The grangers want to know something about it. We have a terrible curiosity to have knowledge, but we do not want to get it from these pretentious oracles; we want to get it from studying Wisdom's ways. He says he is in doubt about those institutions remaining together satisfactorily. So are

we.

We sometimes think there ought to be a divorce. It was a poor product, undoubtedly a polygamous product, and not brought into the world by correct rules of generation.

Mr. Ford-If it would accommodate you to deliver the rest of your lecture this evening, I would suggest that this matter be passed until then. I see a number of University

Professors here and others that are interested in the question. It is a very important question and has a good many sides to it. As we have a programme undisposed of, I would suggest that this evening be given to this subject. The gentleman was talking to a different purpose from what Mr. Sloan was. The committee appointed to consider this matter will make their report this afternoon.

Mr. Sloan-Suppose you state what you would like about this University affair. I have not the slightest idea what you would like.

Mr. Broughton-I did not expect to find a man of your order in darkness. The proposition is to separate the agricultural farm from the University and place it on an entirely separate basis; separate it from the shadow of the teaching of the classics as far as possible. Michigan and Texas and some other states have done this, and it has worked well and they have plenty of students. We have got to get at this by any route we can take if it is ever so circuitous. We are scientifically fooled in this matter.

On motion of Mr. Babbitt the further discussion of this matter was postponed to the evening session.

ENSILAGE.

DISCUSSION.

Mr. Hacker-In regard to putting clover into the mow green I would like to make a statement. Some ten years ago I mowed some clover that had considerable pigeon grass in it. I was afraid we were going to have a rain and I put four tiers into that mow pretty green. For a while it seemed as if that hay was all rotted, but in the winter when I opened it, it was the nicest clover I ever fed. Even the stems were

eaten up. It kept very nicely. About two feet of the outer edge next to the side of the barn was spoiled. It was put into the mow the day after it was cut. It was very green when it was put in.

Mr. Palmer-There is some danger of fire from that cause I understand. I heard of a barn in my neighborhood that was lost by putting in clover green. I saw in the

Country Gentleman lately the suggestion of baling hay green. The idea of putting into silos is to press so as to keep the air out as I understand. The question was asked why hay could not be pressed green and then packed with dry straw put between the bundles so as to take up the moisture which would come from the bales- if it could not be preserved in that way cheaper and with less trouble. Would it not be a good idea to experiment in that direction.

Prof. Henry-It seems to me that that is a more expensive way than to simply tumble the hay into the silo and take it out as you want it.

Mr. Palmer-I have always been in favor of putting in clover before it got very dry. I have put it into my barn when it would get wonderfully hot on top, but the clover came out extremely fine in the winter and my cattle liked it very much.

Mr. Ford-I was talking with the gentleman whose barn was burned, and he said nothing about any such cause as that. I wish to ask Prof. Henry about the economical aspect of this question. If I understand his figures, in forty-two days the cows made six pounds more of butter on ensilage. That would be, assuming that the butter is worth 25 cents a pound, $1.50 for the extra expense in preparing the ensilage. It seems to me that if you can save 2,800 pounds of ensilage for less than a dollar and a half there may be a little profit in it.

Sen. Anderson-I have had a good deal of experience with clover hay. I have raised as high as 350 loads of clover hay in a season. I would not advise any farmer to put it up too green. That is my experience. It will become mouldy. It will become as brown as if it was pressed tobacco, and about the same color. I think the better plan is to try to have it dry before you put it up if possible. The great difficulty I know is to cure clover hay properly, but when properly cured it is one of the finest feeds for sheep or milch. cows of anything I can raise on the farm. I generally mix it with a little timothy, but not so much timothy that it will affect the clover for being good seed for a second crop. Sometimes it pays better to cut the second crop of clover for

seed instead of hay. I suppose most farmers are aware that the second crop fed to cattle will make them slobber a good deal. It is not a very good feed. Do not put up your clover hay if it is dampened with dew or if there is any water on it. There are some very dry years when clover can be put up very quickly, when there is very little moisture in the stalk, when it is so dry that in a few hours after it is cut the leaves will break off from the stalk. In such years I would put it up very quickly. I have a large barn that I can pack about 100 tons of hay in. I would take it out of the mow and the blossoms would be red in some seasons, but it is very seldom that you have such a season as that. Last season was a bad one.

Mr. Hacker-What course would you pursue if you had five or six acres mowed, and if you did not put it into the barn immediately it would get wet.

Sen. Anderson-I have taken in as high as one hundred loads in three days, and I thought it was doing pretty well, with my own teams; but I would prefer putting it up in quite large cocks, and if it goes through a heating process in those cocks, spread it out a little before you haul it in. After you dry it it will not go through that heating process afterwards. I would prefer to have a little of the outside of the cocks injured than to injure the whole of it by drawing it into the barn.

Mr. Sloan-Buy haycaps.

Mr. Hacker-They would be a good thing, but they are expensive and troublesome.

Sen. Anderson-I do not know whether Prof. Henry was at the Grand Pacific at the national convention. The question of ensilage was discussed fully by a farmer from western New York. He said that the best corn he found for ensilage was southern sweet corn. He said there was more nutriment in it and the stock liked it better, and it was a large variety of corn which produced very heavily to the acre. He gave his whole process. He had a steam engine for cutting, and said he could put in a ton every five minutes in his silo. He spoke of it very highly and every man who heard him thought he was well posted.

Mr. Kellogg -I have had a larger experience than any