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raise, then get you a good man. make him an LMjual partner, and whon I 

 say equal I don't mean a l»are living for him and the balance for yourself, 

 but arrive at just what is justly due each other; don't go at it like two 

 horse traders, each trying to get tlie better of the other, but make a con- 

 tract that is perfectly fair, .iiid lidtli live up to it, and my word for it you 

 will have a whole lot more money at the end of the year besides the satis- 

 faction. Now wliile I don't care to flatter my partner, should he be in the 

 audience, I will say that wliilc talking over this subject with others they 

 have made this remark, "If 1 l^ncw where 1 could get such a man as you 

 have I would like to have him," and I have felt like telling them they 

 could not keep him uidess tliey changed from thiMr iiresent mode of doing 

 business. 



On the other hand I have a great many applications to rent, saying 

 they would just like to rent the way I was renting. We have a contract 

 that Ave have changed from time to time Avhich seems to be perfectly fair 

 and we both live up to it. at least I am satisfied, and if he is not he is too 

 bashful to mention it. Now, I feel under just as many obligations to him 

 for caring for and keeping the farm in good shape as he possibly can 

 to me for what I have done for him, and in this way we are enabled to 

 continue from year to year witliout changing farms and tenants everj' 

 year, which is a great loss to liotli parties. I don't claim that this condi- 

 tion can be accomplished in one year, it may take a number of years, 

 as it has in our case, but go to work with that end in view. Don't con- 

 clude that all renters are disiionest. I Ix-lieve that there are as many 

 honest renters today as there are honest landlords, and I am not sure but 

 more. There is sometimes a temptation to take advantage of a man's 

 circumstances, and if you do. it will result in a failuiv to both. Perliaps 

 there was never a time in the history of Fulton County when there were 

 as many improvements made as there has l)een in liie last live years. 

 Let's not let it stop, but keep it going. Tlie outlook for the farmer is just 

 as good as it ever was. We can all do sometliing to imjn-ove the looks of 

 our farm, and I will close with this one statement. I was invited to give 

 my ideas, and in order to subslantiati- tlie fact that they were my ideas, 

 I have given a brief description of my own farm, not with a view to 

 boast of what I have done or of contrasting my own with others, for I 

 wish from the bottom of my heart that every farm in Fulton County was 

 better llian my own. 



