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scientific men told me not to talk it, that it wouldn't do in Pennsylva- 

 nia. They said, "You can't do it," just like a man in St. Paul. He was 

 out one evening and met some friends and he got so drunk he could 

 scarcely get home, and he started and on his way home he had to go 

 through the movie district of St. Paul, and going along the pavement, 

 he staggered up to an electric light pole and got hold of it and looked 

 up and saw an electric sign that said, "Home, Sweet Home in three 

 reels," and he said, "You can't do it." Like the poor fellow who 

 went to the hospital, and the operation was performed and he was 

 on the operating table, had come to, and a fire broke out across the 

 street and the Doctor said, "Pull down the blinds, this fellow will 

 come to and think the operation was a failure." Making communi- 

 ties, making them better, that's what we want to do, and not long 

 ago, my friend Lighty took supper at my home which was the great- 

 est pleasure T have had for sometime, but after supper, walking out 

 over our farm which has almost been ruined the second time by a 

 lumber job — we were walking over a mowing field that had the 

 manure on the top of it and he looked at the manure and looked at 

 the elevation we were on and he said: "Seeds, it is mighty expen- 

 sive to haul this barnyard manure up a hill like this." I said, "It 

 is all right, we can haul it up this hill and put it on a mowing field 

 and not plow it down and beat the man vv^ho plows it down," and 

 I haven't seen a mowing field in this great and glorious country — 

 T say to you that I haven't seen a grass field from Pitts- 

 burgh to this town this morning that looked as good as that 

 mowing field that has the manure on top of it. That will be mowed 

 and the top taken off and be a better field for corn next year than it 

 w^as this year before the manure was put on it. Did you hear what 

 this man said about this asparagus, about putting the manure on a 

 year before to get the crop the coming year? Every now and then I 

 come across a man who is turning around and backing up the 

 things I am talking about. Of course, they don't like it. I have 

 been called more liars than any man in the State of Pennsylvania. 

 I like to pose as the biggest liar in the State because I stand in a 

 class by myself. I know they find fault and say they don't like it. 

 I have had it thrown in my teeth dozens of times. A man down in 

 Pittsburgh not long ago, was working for Jones & Laughlin and a 

 friend met him and said, "Are you still at Jones & Laughlin?" 

 "Nor sir." "I thought you liked them, couldn't work any place 

 else." He said, "I like Jones & Laughlin all right, I have been 

 there a long time, but I didn't like the way the boss talked, and so 

 I quit." "What did the boss say?" "Why, the boss said, 'you're 

 fired.' " So my dear friends, the great thing in any line is the 

 ability to come together, and I will tell you that — you can talk 

 about stories and applications, but my friend Peachey told a story 

 that not as long as I live, could I forget it if I wanted to and that 

 is to back up the assertion that I am from Missouri and I want to see 

 it, I want you to show me; that's the question; you can talk about 

 theory, you can talk about how it will look and all that kind of 

 business, but T want to see it, T want to look at it with my eye and 

 Peachey told a story that I will never forget, of the old lady going 

 across the ocean on a ship and she heard them talk about crossing 

 the equator and she went to the Captain and said, "Captain, I hear 

 you are going to cross the equator. I would like to see the equator." 



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