Cedar Falls. Ia. Feb 13th / 87.
Prof. C. E. Bessey,
My Dear Sir.
I have
received your very welcome letter.
Please accept my thanks for your
suggestions. I agree with you on
everything you said. We need two
men – one for brain & class work and
the other for out door work and to
carry out the experimental work
planned by the farmer. As you say,
it would be best to select young men
as popular old men would require
higher salaries than we could offer.
Again a young man would be more
likely to do the work well and please
the people of Iowa than an old man
who ha[d?] fixed ideas in regard to industrial
college work. I think that it would
be better to pay a young professor of Agriculture
$1600.00 per year and give him
a competent assistant for out door
work, who might be procured for $1200.00
per annum. We should in my opinion
strike out on a different line of work
from that which is practised at most
of the other agricultural colleges
and experimental stations. We should not
keep on repeating the old experiments
in feeding, breeding, etc. which have
been tried hundreds of times.
