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graduate courses, and studies in hospitals, who is a continual 

 student and learns of every possible case which will bear upon 

 his specialty in his profession, finds himself so far in the fore- 

 front of his profession that he has scarcely time to attend to the 

 important cases that come to him. It is almost universally true 

 that this is the case. There are men whom you would rather 

 consult and pay a fee of one thousand dollars, if you had to bor- 

 row every cent of it and work for years to pay the debt, than 

 trust that same case to some other physician who lacked the skill 

 and the reputation of the one first mentioned. \Mien those 

 things come home to us we feel their truth. When you are on 

 trial for your life you employ no pettifogger, but a man who 

 has the training, and the training on top of the natural ability, 

 whom you think can save you in this great crisis. 



Here in the Dairy Conference we are shown plainly that those 

 who have taken technical training in the business in which they 

 are engaged are more successful financially than those who have 

 not this training. The man who is a graduate of an agricultural 

 college, who has studiously followed all of the bulletins sent out 

 by the Department of Agriculture of the United States and the 

 agricultural journals, who has consulted with others in such 

 meetings as this, finds himself better able to handle his farm and 

 market his products than the one who blindly shuts himself up 

 and says that his experience and that of his father will suffice. 

 One of the best illustrations we have occurs right here in our 

 midst. The legislature last winter passed an appropriation to 

 employ an expert in the dairy business, to go about this state 

 and see what good he might do. He began his work and after 

 a short time he discovered what perhaps he knew before, what 

 we all know when we stop to consider it, that any man to be a 

 success in any line, however narrow, must be broader than his 

 profession. A man who is only just wide enough to fit the 

 niche he is to fill will soon find himself rattling around in that 

 niche. He must be broader than the niche he is placed to fill. 

 So this dairy instructor, after a little experience, finds that he 

 must know something more than the actual practice of what he 

 is sent out to teach, and he goes away and studies, spends a 

 large amount of money to go to an institution which is famed 

 for its knowledge and skill in dairs^ work. And when he comes 

 back, whether he gets paid another cent more for his expendi- 

 ture, he will live a broader life, he will be of more value to every 



