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ency to cater most to the prosperous and the well-to-do, and 

 a failure to preach the true gospel of agriculture to those 

 men who need it most. You will pardon me if I say this 

 plainly and bluntly to you men here today, but I am not 

 afraid to say it, or to look any man in the face and say it. It 

 is an unfortunate fact in my opinion that the prosperous and 

 well-to-do of agriculture have not gone out of their way, as 

 they should have done, to reach the little farmers back upon 

 the farms in the hills. 



It seems to me, however, desirable for the practical man 

 and the scientist to travel together, if you can get them to 

 do so. The " why " man and the " how " man, get them 

 to go together: one to tell why a thing is done, and the other 

 to tell how. But let these men know their limitations. Do 

 not let them stray over into each other's territory and get 

 themselves mixed up. 



Let the scientific man and the practical man understand 

 each his own limitation, so that each will keep to his own 

 territory, and then they will work together. 



Now let me say that no man should ever talk at a farmers' 

 institute who is afraid of his own voice. This country is full 

 of mumblers who are walking up and down attempting to 

 teach the people, while the people in the seats do not hear 

 half they say. For the sake of the deaf man, for the sake of 

 those men who do not hear easy, speak up. Do not send 

 out the mumblers and the grumblers onto your institute plat- 

 form, or those who are afraid to exercise their voices. They 

 will not make a good impression because the people cannot 

 hear what they say. Those of us .who are going to listen ap- 

 preciate a clear, distinct, musical voice. I am not sure, but 

 I think I have seen somewhere that sixty-five per cent, of the 

 people of this country, over thirty-five years of age, have lost 

 part of their hearing, and for the sake of those, for the sake of 

 that large percentage in the audience with defective hearing, 

 let the speaker be a man who will speak up, and not be afraid 

 to make himself heard. 



