Fifth Annual Report, October 19th, 1902 . s as well as bread-producers? Will you go on lamenting the congestion of the over-crowded cities, the demoralizing and debilitating influences of theslums and sweatshops, when a possible and practical cure liesplainly before you here? Will you go on spending hundreds ofthousands of dollars in asylums, and homes, and hospitals, on tliediseased and exhausted of the cities, nearly all of which you mightsave in time by encouraging and promoting such work as is donehere ? Will you continue to look unmoved upon the scores turnedfrom our doors, disappointed i


Fifth Annual Report, October 19th, 1902 . s as well as bread-producers? Will you go on lamenting the congestion of the over-crowded cities, the demoralizing and debilitating influences of theslums and sweatshops, when a possible and practical cure liesplainly before you here? Will you go on spending hundreds ofthousands of dollars in asylums, and homes, and hospitals, on tliediseased and exhausted of the cities, nearly all of which you mightsave in time by encouraging and promoting such work as is donehere ? Will you continue to look unmoved upon the scores turnedfrom our doors, disappointed in their desire for an agriculturaltraining and career, because of this institutions lack of means anddormitory accommodations to admit them ? The crucial test is no longer upon us. It is upon you grant that when we shall gather a year hence for the thirdgraduation, we may be able to render as favorable a report of sacredduty nobly performed by you as we render to-day of the first gradu-ating class of the National Farm School, ?. BARN, Silo and Sheep Shed—boys at work.


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