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Men Who Led LEONARD LOSING BULLOCK 149 Leonard Loring Bullock was a charter member of the Buel institute when it was organized in 1846 and one of the committee that drew up its constitution; during the first three years of the society's existence he was recording secretary and during the remaining seven years before his death, in 1856, he was twice elected president and three times chosen vice president. It was from the bafflement and disappointment of daily life that Mr, Bullock came to feel acutely the need of industrial education. He came as a pioneer to LaSalle county, Illinois, and engaged in the work of farming and stock raising. His mind worked alertly, precisely. He saw the needs of the farmer and felt keenly the limitations imposed upon him by his ignorance. He read the farm papers eagerly, he searched agricultural literature but he found himself constantly confronted with problems the solution of which baffled him. It was for this reason that he threw himself ardently into the work of industrial education. It was during his first term as president of Buel institute that congress was petitioned in 1852 to establish an agricultural bureau. He had long felt the need of such a bureau maintained by the federal government which should carry on practical experimentation and publish the reports of results as guides for the farmer. As president of the institute his name • headed the petition. In an article in the Prairie Farmer of June, 1852, he expressed himself upon the need of establishing industrial education, as Turner proposed it, without delay. The communication is a reply to an editorial in the March number of the Prairie Farmer which cautioned against haste and hinted that it would be wise to let Massachusetts or New York take the initiative. " I have but little hopes of witnessing the experiment in Massachusetts,' * he wrote, "and should it be made it would but illy test its practicability here. Here things are quite different; we have a soil and climate unsurpassed, but a system of agriculture ill-adapted to it. The improvement of our farm implements m
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