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CKKAMKKV I'ATltOX IX VKSTIG! ATION IX ^[AHSlIAr>L COUNTY. 



c. V. GoonniCH, of wisconsix. 



Mr. Gootlricli: I shall road what I have to say. and I mi.i^ht tell a 

 littk' .*:tory about that— l)ut perhaps I had better not. 



Voices: Tell the story. We want to hear the story. 



Mr. Goodrich: There was ouce a Congregational preacher and a 

 Methodist preacher, and each was holding a series of revival meetings. 

 The Methodist preacher was very .successful in bringing people into the 

 church, while the Congregational preacher worked just as hard but 

 did not have any success. They met one day, and the Congregational- 

 ist said to the Methodist. "Brother, how is it you are having such re- 

 markable success. Avhile 1 do the best I can, and don't have any success 

 at .tllV" The Methodist saj-s, "That is all plain enough." He says. 

 "When you get up to preach you have your sermon all written out, and 

 the devil stands behind you and glances over your shoulder, and knows 

 what you are going to say before yon say it, and throws his influence 

 beyond you, and hardens the hearts of the people against you; while 

 Avhen I get up to preach I have no manuscript or notes, and the devil 

 himself don't know what I am going to say." [Laughter.] 



This is a busy world, and this is the busiest nation of all the world— 

 and the dairymen are the busiest people of this nation; got to be. That 

 is true if we are going to succeed, but we as dairymen do not want to 

 work for nothing. We want to git just ;is big wages as we can. Every- 

 body is clamoring. We have strikes, and riots and destruction of prop- 

 erty, just because men are not getting big enough wages. We want to 

 sell the products of our farms fur tlic highest prices we can get. When 

 we could get $1.50 a bushel for wheat, we wanted $2. That is human 

 nature. I have been investigating the dairy business somewhat here in 

 .Marshall County, and I found Hint some daii-\iiicii ate making a splendid 

 profit for every dollar's worlli of it'cd they give their cows. Some get 

 $2 and over, and still keep tlie feed on the farm to keep up the fertility 

 of the farm. They have done tirst rate: while some others, for every dol- 

 lar's worth of feed given their cows they have less than a dollar, and 

 they do not have much to leave on the farm. They have been working 

 mighty cheap. It seems to me they should want to know from the other 

 fellow what to do to get big profits. 



The object of this is to make a study of the cow; to find out what 

 kind of cow and wliat kind of treatment would biing the most net 



