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larged his soul aiul stamped on his innocent face — satisfied. The boy, 

 the young- man full of ambition, full of desire for more knowledge, who 

 has not yet tasted of the bitter fruits of failure, who knows no limit to 

 his strength and with his eye on the top round of the ladder of fame, 

 with an ambition that cannot be curbed, impelled by an active brain, that 

 is fed with good, rich, pure blood, on and on toward the goal that has 

 never yet been reached, finds in the dairy business a field for thought, 

 room for expansion, not the hope of reward, but the reward itself in im- 

 mediate results and as he continues to get results that are financially sat- 

 isfactory, he is at the same time developing his mind and preparing him- 

 self for a higher degree of enjoyment. In the country's need from any 

 cause, it is of them they speak when they cry out in their distress, 

 "Where are they at?" 



I heard of a man in Kansas who was opposed to the dairy business 

 and yet permitted his wife to support the family from her cows and I 

 read with pleasure an account of his going to Dakota a short time since. 

 While up there he was looking at a piece of land and wandering over it, 

 he fell into an old well which was very deep. They immediately wired 

 his wife telling her of her husband falling into the well and asked her 

 what they should do. She immediately wired back, "Fill up the well." 



To this association I would say, "Don't give up the ship." To all 

 Missouri I would say, "Keep up the good work ; finish the work already 



begun." 



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In behalf of our very competent and worthy Professor of Dairy 

 Husbandry, Mr. C. H. Eckles, who has manifested such deep interest 

 and has done such effectual work, in behalf of these faithful members of 

 the Missouri State Dairy Association, in behalf of the people of Missouri 

 who have built this magnificent structure and secured a man to make 

 good use of it, in behalf of our Board of Agriculture, in behalf of Mr. 

 George Ellis, the worthy secretary, in behalf of the men who worked 

 so hard to make this meeting a success, in behalf of Missouri's butter 

 makers, in behalf of our mothers and sisters, in behalf of one hundred 

 thousand boys on the farm, in behalf of the man who had the courage 

 of his convictions and went before the Legislature and Legislative Com- 

 mittees, who worked with might and main and succeeded in getting the 

 appropriation for this magnificent structure, your esteemed and honored 

 citizen. Dean Waters, in behalf of the Commonwealth I appeal to you 

 tonight that you will ever and anon keep putting this question and de- 

 manding an answer, "WHERE ARE WE AT?" 



