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cents a dozen." And it was pretty well put, I thought, "Took 

 their carelessness to town." i 



I said to a groceryman, in order to thrash this out, "Would 

 you pay more if you knew these eggs were fresh?" He used 

 the argument, "We have to throw out so many and the com- 

 mission house throws them back on us, we cannot pay more." 

 All right. The women were justified in shipping their eggs out 

 of their home town when the merchants would not do it. A 

 man went into that community who said he could do it? He 

 agreed to take only first-class eggs; he candled them under high 

 power; tested them out, and handled in larger consignments. 

 He certainly made money on il and the women got practically 

 the same price that they had received without the trouble of hav- 

 ing the general delivery. That is what Kiowa county, with an 

 organization of nine hundred seventy-one farm women, is doing 

 in co-operative marketing; just because they started at things 

 definitely, and tbey are going to continue throughout the year, 

 and going to continue to sell their industry in Oklahoma City 

 and the other women can sell their carelessness at Hobart. 

 That is how the thing is finally going to bring itself about. 

 Those possibilities are in your community and they are in mine; 

 they are in every community. 



What I want to say to you is, go home to your community, 

 talk with your wife about what you can do; if she is here, I am 

 as proud as you that she is here; if she is there, won't you please 

 bring her next year. If you cannot both come, the two of you 

 stay at home and save up money in the old stocking and "pig 

 bank" to come the next year. Bring her one year, or you come 

 one year and let her come the next. You will both get good 

 ideas — and friends, it is worth the trouble. It brightens your 

 life and helps more than you know. Success in farm life is not 

 solved in dollars and cents so much as in hearts and smiles. 

 That means more to us than thoroughbred stock. Go home 

 and decide to do something good. Put a rural library into the 

 little school. You can get a few women together for a sewing 

 school and really talk things over, really get something in their 

 homes. Men, will you go home with the idea that woman's 

 work is a narrow work and you her horizon? Oh, she lives 

 only to please the man she loves! She will do more for praises 

 than for your money. Be as generous as you can with that. 

 It doesn't cost you anything. Tell her when she has done some- 

 thing well and see the happy smile coming on that old face. I 



