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to farm more logically. Then think of the waste there is on our farms. 

 If you study the question of waste you will find that most large farms 

 have enough waste products on the farm to pay the running expenses 

 if they were properly fed. 



I thinli an organization such as the State Board of Agriculture has 

 a great opportunity for helping this business and for encouraging the 

 live stock interests and improving them. Some of you may ask how 

 we are to do that. I believe our stock shows, our State fairs and our 

 county fairs are doing much along this line. Some of them are not giv- 

 ing much attention to agricultural products, it is true, but that ought 

 to encourage both sides, and particularly the live stock interests. Many 

 of the men who are interested in cattle or hogs or sheep go to the inter- 

 national shows. Why do you go there? You go there to see the best 

 there is, you go there to form ideals, and you come back with an inspi- 

 ration to grow better live stock. So it is with our shows and with our 

 State and county fairs. We need to make our shows the very best. 

 There has been great improvement in our Western States along this 

 line, but Indiana has been a little behind in some of these things. I 

 know Indiana has a good State Fair, but we ought to do more and make 

 it better. If we go into some of the Western States and see what they 

 are doing In their agricultural colleges to encourage the work of live 

 stock farming we will find that Indiana is not quite up with them. Our 

 county fairs should be encouraged. If we have good shows of live stock 

 we may get there a class of farmers who have not been going to the 

 State fairs, and they will get an inspiration there to grow better ani- 

 mals. After a time they will be inspired to go to the State fairs and 

 the larger shows. A good show is a great inspiration. I am sure that 

 you who attend them are improved by the stock exhibits. 



You may say that you can not approach the stock that is shown at 

 these exhibits. Are you sure that you can not? You have never tried, 

 and at least you can do the best you can and you may be surprised at 

 the results. We have some of the best live stock in the country in Indi- 

 ana, and we have one of the best State fairs; but we should strive to 

 make them better. We should encourage the exhibitors to come here, 

 and we should encourage our people to come here and study the live 

 stock problems. We should make the shows appeal to the farmers. You 

 may say that the farmer is not interested in this sort of thing when 

 he comes to the fair. I know there are some men who like other things 

 and go for other things, but we should not forget that the larger number 

 of farmers who attend the fairs go there to see the exhibits of live stock 

 and agricultural products. We can not afford to keep on selling the 

 large number of bushels of corn off our land that we are selling today. 

 The other day I went out into the country and saw in one place an eighth 

 of a mile of rail corn cribs piled up to be sold. Not a bushel of that 

 corn was to be fed in Indiana. Can we afford to do this when we know 



