DAIRY, SEED IMPROVEMENT, STOCK BREEDERS' MEETINGS. l8l 



RESPONSE. 



L. C. HoLSTON, Cornish. 



It gives me, as ambassador of these three organizations, 

 great pleasure to accept such a kindly and cordial welcome to 

 this city. We have no home of our own where we can sit and 

 discuss questions continually arising in this great field of agri- 

 culture, andi it is well that such is the case. It is well that we 

 have to accept the hospitality of our cities, our market places, 

 that we may come into closer contact with the consumers of our 

 products. 



We hope that the meetings which are to be held this week 

 in this hall will be as helpful to the consumer as to the producer 

 and we want you all to feel welcome to attend any or all of 

 them. One reason we come to the city, is in order to induce 

 some of your best men, whom you have enticed from the old 

 farms, to return and use their brains there, to our mutual ad- 

 vantage. There are lots of them longing to get into touch with 

 the soil again. They long to use their hands as well as their 

 brains, which is natural. They come to the city to do brain 

 work, because all the farm demanded then was brawn and mus- 

 cle. They called the work of the doctors brain work, when, as 

 a matter of fact, in the best farming of today there is more 

 chemistry, physiology, biology and hygiene than in medicine. 

 Diagnosis of a sick soil and prescribing a remedy often re- 

 quires brain work of the highest order. 



They called the work of the lawyer brain work, when the 

 laws of nature are quite as intricate as any made by man. They 

 called the work of the bookkeeper brain work, when proper 

 bookkeeping of the farmer is far more complex than that of 

 almost any other business you might mention. Let them come 

 back to teach our children, the hope of the country, not to be too 

 hasty in giving up the farm environments for those of the city. 



