DAIRY, SEED IMPROVEMENT, STOCK BREEDERS' MEETINGS. I79 



Specialized training, a greater efficiency and better understand- 

 ing of the things about us. People are beginning to realize that 

 the old-style method of doing business, raising crops and the 

 other details of life, cannot be relied upon for results, and that 

 the advancement of the times calls for efficient engineers, and so 

 Farmers' Institutes and the establishment of trade and indus- 

 trial schools at night for the wage earner have come into being. 

 Men have begun to realize that a sort of teamwork, a sort of 

 cooperation of one with another, a common sharing of trade 

 secrets and methods in the final analysis, is bringing about a 

 better condition of prosperity and a happier mode of life and, 

 indeed, better business prospects. 



The cave man, clothed in his rough garments, wielding his 

 rough tools, fairly wrung from the soil his subsistence. His 

 big fight was to survive, and his struggle for the necessities of 

 life, that are ours today, practically, for the asking and taking, 

 must have been to him despairing at times. When Earth began 

 to respond to man's wooing, and he began to sense his birth- 

 right and heritage, it was through the fields, and as agriculture 

 became his occupation, his lot became easier. He learned to 

 know that, if he did not sow, there was no harvest to reap. 

 This reduced, as centuries went on, his great problem of life, 

 and he came to give his time and attention to the other things 

 of life. 



In this great country of ours, there is growing that idea of 

 community help, trade betterment, and mutual understanding 

 that makes for better business. You may be the most success- 

 ful man in your neighborhood, yet some idea of a humbler 

 brother might increase your own personal equipment. We 

 who live in the cities are beginning to understand that our pros- 

 perity depends not exclusively on our own efforts, but we are 

 successful just to the extent that other men are successful. We 

 must work together harmoniously, with that spirit of kindness 

 and friendship which brings the best results. So I hope that 

 each brother here will go from this meeting, glad that he came 

 — not only feeling that socially you have had a good time — I 

 want you also to feel that you have carried from Lewiston and 

 from this convention something of value to yourself and to 

 the business which you represent. 



