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who is a good reader, at that institute. He comes front and he reads 

 these questions. So that gives somebody else something to do. 



So all in all, gentlemen, 3'ou see that a good county chairman must 

 bo the power or should be the power or like the silent partner of a 

 business concern who is sometimes, or generally is, the strongest con- 

 trolling factor in the business. A good county chairman should be a 

 sober man; he should be honest, truthful, diligent, charitable, always 

 having regard for the other fellow, forgetting yourself, imbued with 

 the responsibility of teaching and leading men to learn and to love 

 agriculture which, my friends, is at the very foundation of all the 

 material wealth and prosperity of our country. As we came over 

 the railroad to Pittsburg, I and Brother Lighty sat upon the same 

 seat, and as we passed by these great iron plants, we conversed 

 together and we almost came to the conclusion that they seemed to 

 be the main sijring of the prosj)erity of the counti-y when we saw the 

 twining smoke going heavenward. We went on to Pittsburg and by 

 the adjoining places, gazed at the gigantic buildings, many stories 

 high, and listening to the hum of these mills and factories we almost 

 came to the conclusion that tJiat was the mainspring of the prosperity 

 of our country. Again thoughts took me to Washington, the seat of 

 our National Government, and beheld the vaults of the United States 

 Treasury, and I began to think is this the secret of our prosperity; 

 but I made up my mind that it was none of these things. While I 

 regard these things as all important and necessarj^; yet, my friends, 

 the real seat of the prosperity of this country is in the cultivation of 

 the broad acres of our great State and the United States, the pro- 

 ducts of which produces the greatest wealth which feeds the world. 



A good county chairman should love his work. A man who does^ 

 not love farming should quit it. The man who loves his business will 

 be a success. The lady or gentleman who loves to teach school will 

 be the best teacher in the community. Kow in the spring of the year, 

 when the birds sing and the grass grows, we imagine that every live 

 teacher is anxious to quit their schools. Just this spi-ing I met a 

 teacher and I said: "Bessie, you have only three days yet and T 

 suppose you are very glad." "No," she said, " I love to teach;" and 

 that is one of the best teachers we have in our township. So a good 

 county chairman must love his work and love to do things, and must 

 have an interest in the other fellow. If he does not love the work 

 and like it, he had better quit, resign and let someone else take his 

 place. 



My friends, my brother county chairmen let us combine the best 

 qualities, the best efforts that are in us in performing this great work 

 that is given to us in this high calling of managing farmers' insti- 

 tutes in the various counties of this State. Let us combine these 

 qualities and all the best efforts in us as much as consistent with our 

 active work upon the farm, and then I am sure and believe that we 

 will be judged as men among men in the great Comumnwealtli of 

 Pennsylvania. A good county chairman should be a rich man, as 

 I think sometimes; not very rich; just about rich enough to board 

 himself and work for nothing. 



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