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First Years of Work 823 Morse, editor of the Journal of Agriculture, M. L. Dunlap, W. C. Flagg, Jonathan Periam, Captain Edward Snyder, Dr. E. S. Hull of Alton who spoke on "orchard fraits," George Husman of Hermann, Mo., Samuel Edwards of Lemoille, CoL N. J. Cohnan, editor of the Rural World, Elmer Baldwin, A. M. Barland, president Illinois sheep growers association, John H. Tice, secretary Missouri board of agriculture, and 0. B. Galusha. The lectures were received enthusiastically and the discussions were earnest and lively. The attendance was small, but those who were present expressed deep satisfaction in the stimulation to increased effort in their work that they had received. It was not strange that the attendance was not large for the two towns were not equipped to care for many strangers; railroad travel was not as common as today nor as pleasant;' - good roads'' had not yet become the subject of a movement and a journey of thirty or forty miles over existing roads, and that in the dead of winter, was a hazardous undertaking; also, it was known that the lectures and discussions would be printed in the annual report of the board of trustees, and most people preferred to wait and read them comfortably by their own firesides, where they could, in imagination, take part in discussions, flooring all who disagreed with them in a manner far more satisfactory than they probably could have done in the flesh. A large portion of the lectures were published in the report of the Missouri board of agriculture, whose secretary, L. D. Morse, made this comment: "Thus was inaugurated a new and probably important improvement." Morse was right for what was inagurated was a forerunner of the modern "short course" with attendance running up into the thousands. It was during a discussion at this course of lectures that Gregory plunged M. L. Dunlap, who was beginning to entertain hopes of him, into despair. "Altho," Dunlap had said the month before the discussion in question, "the practical part of Dr. Gregory's education may cost us eight thousand dollars, it may yet be worth the full sum to us." 1 * But at this discussion Dunlap repented of his optimism when Gregory arose and suggested, as a mere theory it must be admitted, that as the human ^Chicago Tribune, December 22, 1869,
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