78 THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Light Versos Darkness. 



Gentlemen of the Vermont Dairymen's Association: 



I am glad to greet you once more. It is a very comforting assur- 

 ance that I am still alive. I am glad to see that you are. We must 

 work while the day lasts. What a beautiful thing it is to be able to 

 work, to think, to reason, and by all these aids to better see the truth. 



The other day a woman farmer in Wayne County, N. Y., sent me the 

 following letter: 



Editor Hoard's "Dairyman": A neighbor called at my house the 

 other night and remained until it was very dark. When he came to go 

 away I urged him to take my lantern to show him the road. He re- 

 fused, saying: "I guess I know the road, I've travelled over it for 30 

 years." 



Before he got home he ran his wagon into a ditch, was overturned, 

 and the team ran away, killing one horse. A little cheap lantern light 

 would have saved all this. Did he really know the way? Did he 

 know as much as he thought he did? And he had travelled over the 

 road, he said, "for 30 years." 



Some of my neighbors are just like him about taking the "Dairyman." 

 O! they "know the way." I find the "Dairyman" lantern very handy. 

 But I am only a woman you know, carrying on a farm. But my receipts 

 per cow are the largest of any at this creamery, and that neighbor who 

 would not take the lantern was at my house borrowing a hundred dol- 

 lars to help him out. I was glad my cows were doing enough better so 

 I could lend it to him. I am sorry for him, but what can you do with 

 men who are so conceited that they don't know they need a lantern? 

 Maybe I shouldn't have written this. But then, he will never see it, 

 for he never reads the "Dairyman." 



ONLY A WOMAN SUBSCRIBER. 



Wayne Co., N. Y. 



Doesn't that sound like a woman? 

 My topic to-day will be. "Light Versus Darkness." 

 Mr. H. S. Griswold of West Salem, Wis., owns a farm of 50 acres. 

 He is an ambitious man, anxious to earn all the money he can. But he 

 is unlike the great mass of farmers, most of whom want to own all the 

 land they can. They think a man's ability and importance as a farmer 

 is to be reckoned by the size of his farm. Mr. Griswold thinks differ- 

 ently. His ambition is to see how much, in straight dairy work, he can 

 make 50 acres earn. So he makes that little farm carry a dairy of 20 

 grade Guernsey cows, and they earned him about one hundred dollars 



