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Dairyman. — I would ask if he would make the butter-maker the 

 manager? 



Mr. Adams. — It would depend a great deal on what kind of a man 

 your butter-maker was. Of course, if he was a butter-maker of the 

 right stamp, he could be the manager of the creamery, although in our 

 experience we never have done any such thing. 



President Aitken. — If there are no further questions we will proceed 

 with the next subject, but before taking up this subject we wish to 

 introduce something that is not on the program. I see that there 

 are quite a number of the students of the Agricultural College here, 

 and I think it would be well for the farmers of Vermont to find out 

 what kind of boys they are that are going to this College, and I will call 

 upon Mr. W. H. Heath to come forward and tell you what he knows 

 about this business, or anything else that he wants to. 



W. H. Heath. — I was requested to give a recitation, and not to make 

 a speech on farming. Recitation by Mr. Heath. 



President Aitken. — The next thing upon the program is an address by 

 Governor Hoard of Wisconsin. 



Governor Hoard said: Mr. Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen — I 

 am not in the very best of condition; it has taken me two days and two 

 nights of the most disagreeable travelling and experience to reach 

 Burlington, and I am not any too good natured about it. either. As 

 men grow old they are very apt to live in the past and pretty nearly 

 seventy years gives me something of an experience in that direction. 

 Sometimes I think old men get into the condition that Judge Gonger 

 of my State said concerning himself: He said he did not always vote 

 with the Whigs, sometimes he voted with the Democrats; if he thought 

 they were right, he voted with them; and one day after he had voted 

 again with his own party after having voted with the Democrats, Dr. 

 Robinson of North Carolina said: "Why, you are opposed to a 

 blamed sight more than you are in favor of," and the Judge said he 

 thought as men grew old they got into that condition; they were 

 opposed to more than they were in favor of. I have tried all my 

 life to keep my ear pretty close to the ground. I was a good deal 

 interested in the excellent paper read by Mr. Adams, and the story he 

 told reminded me of another. In the little city of Wilkesbarre, Pa., 

 there lived an old Judge by the name of Williams. The old Judge was 

 one of the best loved men in the whole country, a man of excellent 

 mind and profound judgment, but he would get drunk, and when he 

 was drunk he was correspondingly religious. If there was a religious 

 meeting going on in that town the Judge was there. One night he 

 sat on a front bench and Mr. Barber, the minister, struck a very 

 emphatic period; he said: "Show me the drunkard, of all men on 

 God's earth, he is the one most to be pitied — show him to me!" 

 when, to the surprise of everybody, the Judge arose and said: "That's 

 me; what will you have?" Well, the minister did not expect to 

 realize upon his investment quite so quick, and when he did he didn't 

 know where to put it, and so it sort of caused a stop in the pro- 



