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permeated every phase of agriculture. It seems to me that the principle of 

 cooperation ought to be adopted in this country. I would not adopt it on 

 such a large scale, but begin to experiment with it. Cooperation will succeed 

 anywhere it is rightly organized. Where it has not succeeded it is because 

 there has been some fault in the organization. Take the cooperative cream- 

 ery, for instance, with which I am more familiar than with other cooperative 

 forms. When a cooperative creamery is organized they get the pledges of the 

 farmers who can supply enough milk for a creamery to send their milk to 

 the creamery for ten years. If any drop out, they will lose what financial 

 interest they have in the creamery. They agree to ship their milk there for 

 ten years, and they send in the milk and are paid for it. The manager 

 reserves, say, 5 cents on each one hundred pounds, and a farmer loses this 

 if he drops out ; so it makes him stick to the creamery when otherwise he 

 would pull out. No stock is issued before the end of the ten years. The 

 creamery is financed on these pledges to supply the milk for a certain 

 length of time. 



But I want to go back where I started. The most important factor in any 

 industry is the man. Unless he is the right kind of a man he will not have 

 much success. He must have ideals, and he must stick to those ideals. We 

 must have goals to aim for, a purpose in life, and then we ought not to let 

 anything swerve us from our purpose. Many of us lose interest and grow 

 cowardly, but the man who can stick to his ideals will succeed. 



I want to tell you of an instance which happened in northern Michigan. A 

 man who had been in the lumber business for a number of years had built up 

 a very successful business, and he wanted to turn over this business at his 

 death to some one who would carry it on. He had no near relatives, so he 

 decided to adopt a young boy and train him in the business, and he adver- 

 tised for a bright boy. There were many answers from boys wanting a 

 chance, and one day he called all the boys together and said to them, "Now, 

 boys, I am going to tell you a story, and when I am through you can ask me 

 questions about it." And this was the story : 



"A man built a barn, a fine barn. It was two stories high and 60 feet wide, 

 and it was painted red. He planted an acre of corn back of the barn, but the 

 crows got in the corn. So one day he loaded his shotgun, got behind the fence, 

 and blazed away at the crows. But the wadding in the shotgun caught fire 

 and set fire to the barn, and bui'ned it up. Now, boys, do you want to ask 

 any questions?" 



One boy asked, "Was there any stock in the barn?" Another asked, "Was 

 it insured?" But one boy said. "Did he get the crow?" And that last boy 

 was the one the lumber man selected ; that was the kind of boy he wanted, 

 one who could stick to the main purpose until he accomplished it. 



Dr. D. H. Hill : Two summers ago I was staying on the side of a 

 mountain up in West Virginia. As I was walking along the road one 

 night I heard a little boy call out to another, "Come and see the 

 light !" I asked where the light came from, and the boy told me to 

 look across the valley. After a little while I could hear the rumble of 

 a train, and then a great light from the headlight of an engine flashed 

 out over the valley, and every little boy called to the others to come and 

 see the light. 



A few years ago a great man arose in our country, an agricultural 

 engineer. He projected a great light that shone all over the country, 

 and people called to each other to come and see the light. I do not 

 need to tell this audience that that man was Dr. Knapp. He had an 

 ideal, and fortunately for this Nation, God spared him to a ripe old 

 age to start the ideal, Avhich I am sure you will carry out — the ideal 

 that the farmer should be the most intelligent man in all the com- 



