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to surround yourself and family with more of the things that go to 

 make farm life pleasant and helpful to all connected with it. The 

 plan outlined by me, and followed by myself, will enable you to ship 

 milk at a profit if you live four miles from the railroad, and one and 

 three-quarters hours by rail to the town where your milk is 

 to be sold. I mention these distances because I have proved that 

 within these limits, at least, this plan can be carried out in a very 

 satisfactory manner to all concerned, producer, retailer, and con- 

 sumer. Prepare to produce a good article, and then tell its merits 

 over and over again until the public will believe in its superiority 

 as much as you do yourself. 



Now, I shall be glad to answer any questions, and I will say to 

 all of the farmers, I think that if there is one class of people who 

 has the good of life, it is the farmers, and I think a man who under- 

 stands dairying, is fitted to stand shoulder to shoulder with any 

 class of professional men in the country today. If you have a good 

 article, why not talk about it, and tell its merits, until the people 

 believe in it too? If you do this you will rise to a higher and better 

 level. 



CORN GROWING. 



By PROF. G. I. CHRISTIE, Indiana Experiment Station, Lafayette, Ind. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: So many times have I 

 heard speakers in the last few days say they were glad to be here, 

 and congratulate the people of Pennsylvania on being such a good- 

 looking lot of people, that I have come to the conclusion that we 

 are about the only people, and I am glad to be here. 



When people rise to the very pinnacle of fame, as some of us 

 think we have done, they usually make their own terms, and when I 

 am asked to make an address, I usually tell them that I have two 

 rules without which I will not speak; the first is, I must have from 

 two to three hours' time in which to tell what I want to say, and 

 the second is, that I will not talk after nine o'clock in the evening. 

 I must break both of these rules tonight, as I want to let you go 

 home, and it is already considerably after nine o'clock. 



It seems ridiculous for me to come here and tell some of you peo- 

 ple who have grown corn many more years than I have lived, how 

 to grow corn, and I want to say that I do not come here as knowing 

 all about it or to tell you all about it. I simply wish to impress on 

 you tonight the importance of doing some of the things you already 

 know. Our agricultural imijrovement is coming to the people as 

 nothing new — just as telling you that you need pure food and other 

 things are not new things, but telling them to you impresses their 

 importance upon you. 



Prof. Holden has 228,000 farms in Iowa, and he has increased the 

 yield 75,000,000 bushels. We, in Indiana, are simply trying to wake 

 our people up. When I first went to the farmers there, some of the 



