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cause I tliink that is the best. Then they ask about machinery, and 

 if it is to be expensive to them. Then I explain to them the ad- 

 vantages of a water supply, and what a sub-soil plow will do. 



After this meeting is over, if any of you want any information 

 about it, I will be glad to give it to you. This is a new department, 

 and I want you to tell your people about it, and write to either 

 Director Martin or me. I am always on tap. 



2. DR. CONARD: My calls have covered a pretty wide range of 

 occupation, I should say; all the way from planning a large dairy 

 barn, for probably two hundred cows, together with silos, etc., and 

 working plans for the same, down to where I traveled eighty miles 

 and back again, to tell a man to turn his pigs out. They were not 

 thriving, and came pretty near dying, and all they needed was to get 

 out into the air and on the grass. 



DIRECTOR MARTIN: Well, if you saved that herd of hogs, the 

 time was not lost. 



DR. CONARD: Yes; his wife was there, and she said she would 

 see he did turn them out; but if that man had had just a little more 

 sense, he would have known that much himself. His wife said she 

 told him that was what they needed, but he would not turn them 

 out. 



I have been consulted about constructing silos, building barns, re- 

 modeling old barns, regarding the right kind of a sire for the herd; 

 helping to select it; helping a man select a lot of heifers for the pur- 

 pose of making baby beef, down to going into another state and buy- 

 ing a herd of cows for a man who wanted to start a herd. Now, 

 while I have been busy — I want to be busy — I could have done more 

 work than I have done. Some of these calls, it has been necessary 

 to go back two or three times. At present I have a barn that I am 

 looking after for a man who wants to put up and knows nothing at 

 all about it. He is a dentist, and I have to plan and look after the 

 whole thing for him. I am even going to make and mix the concrete 

 for him. 



I think that after while we will have a whole lot of business, and 

 perhaps more of these calls than a man can well attend it. 



3. MR. DORSETT: The three great factors that have been and 

 are the most potential in promoting the welfare of the farmer, and 

 making his farm operations more successful, and in adding comfort 

 and modern conveniences to his home, are education, organization 

 and co-operation. My work as Farm Adviser consists in promoting 

 these three great agencies for the general welfare of the farmer. 



Education is that which fully acquaints a man with his business; 

 a preparation for complete living. It may be gotten from books, it 

 may be obtained through actual experience in conducing farm opera- 

 tions, or it may be a combination of the two; but however it is ob- 

 tained, the farmer must have it if he would get the best out of life 

 and make the most of his opportunities. 



Organization is a joining of forces; a getting together. As an in- 

 dividual the farmer is helpless; but joined together with his fellows 

 he becomes a power for good in all that makes for his success and 



