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Here is the financial basis of the industry, one unequalled 

 by any eastern state, but this tells only a part of the story. More 

 vital problems are behind the figures. The march of invention 

 has not left our agriculture with its kindling torch, neither has 

 the midnight oil in the laboratories been burned without lifting 

 high the flaming banners of scientific research to guide the work- 

 ers up the hills to broader levels and higher vantage grounds. 

 One law holds rigid lines in all the industrial world and the man 

 who tills his acres or makes the finished product must stand by 

 the side of the mechanic or artisan in every other field or the in- 

 dustry is sure to pass into a state of "innocuous desuetude." You 

 cannot maintain dual standards along industrial lines. Failure 

 to appreciate what is here involved will surely send the industry 

 to the low level where its followers will be simply working for a 

 subsistence, grubbing an existence out of IMother Earth. Ac- 

 cepting this, the fact of the rush and whirl of life presses upon 

 our attention. The past ten to twenty years have lifted burdens 

 from the shoulders of men and placed them upon machines so 

 intricate yet so obedient that he who thinks finds close co-partner- 

 ship and willing servants. Never has this Avorld witnessed such 

 rapid strides in construction of machinery to relieve hand labor, 

 in means for increasing output or in demands for critical thought 

 as during the last quarter of a centurv, and in no field of labor 

 has more been gained than in that of agriculture. Everywhere 

 else men deal with machines for the construction of finished out 

 of crude products, here success comes only through partnership 

 with that power which first set the stars in the heavens, and when 

 all "was good" sent man forth to have dominion. That dominion 

 has ever been, and must ever be, mental, not phvsical, and from 

 the dawn of creation to the present moment results have followed 

 man's upward striving towards clearer conception of that divine 

 law by which and through which dominion could obtain. To my 

 mind there is no hope for the industry, outside of mere toil for a 

 livelihood, except by reaching after the hidden things of farm 

 life and work through the doors which science and invention, 

 backed by experience, indicate as the pathwav to larger control. 



You ask me to make a plea for the butter maker and it is a 

 pleasure to respond, but in that plea there must fall censure 

 for neglect of princiDles and practices, understood and anpreciated 

 by the man at the factory and the man at the farm. That sense 

 of individual responsibility Avhich makes every man alert to the 

 best there is in him may be lacking in some degree in one or the 

 other and the whole sufifer because of it. You do right to de- 

 mand of vour butter m.akers certain specific acts, for upon their 

 faithful, impartial performance yotir success as a clairyman de- 

 pends. You are prompt to criticize failure in any degree as you 



