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and invited the crowd to help themselves; and while they were doing 

 this he expounded the gospel of that political faith to which he had 

 subscribed. You couldn't carry on a campaign that way now. 



The principal qualifications for a successful school teacher used 

 to be strong physique and plenty of nerve, and all the school furniture 

 he needed was a bundle of hickory. His greatest qualification may 

 have been in knowing how to use them. Conditions have changed; 

 the teacher may be diminutive, tender and sympathetic. In fact, the 

 teacher may be a lady. The school furniture consists of maps and 

 charts, globes and cubes, etc. A man may have been in the mercantile 

 business in northern Minnesota and carried seal skins, wool-lined over- 

 coats and heavy overshoes; he may have moved to Southern Texas and 

 carried silk jackets, linen dusters, slippers and revolvers. This is no 

 reflection on seal skins — conditions are different. This change in condi- 

 tions is no less apparent on the fann. The changes that have taken place 

 in the past thirty years are so great we can hardly realize that we are 

 in the same country. In fact, if this change had not been gradual we 

 would not recognize it. 



Webster's definition of a Dairyman may have been a good one 

 when he made his dictionary, but it don't cover the case now. 



The twentieth century Dairj^man may be to some, "Only a Dairy- 

 man." He may be and is one who produces milk and makes butter 

 and cheese and deals in Dairy products, but he is more than this. He 

 stands for progress, and in the evolution of Dairying he keeps abreast 

 with the times. He is an intelligent man because he finds in his business 

 the most remunerative market for brains. He is a reader of Dairy 

 literature and a student of Dairy methods, because in his business 

 "Knowledge is Power." He is not a loafer, spending his time at the 

 cross roads store trying to regulate the government, but a man who 

 attends strictly to his owoi business because he finds it profitable. He is 

 a family man, a home lover and spends his time there because that's 

 where his heart is. He is a soil builder instead of a soil robber, because 

 his business enables him to return to his land the life giving force that 

 has been taken by raising grain. He is a clean man, because his busi- 

 ness encourages and demands it. He has written on the tablet of his 

 memory, "Cleanliness is akin to Godliness," and in his social, as well 

 as business life, he forcibly illustrates the truth of this. He is a home 

 builder; a home provider, a home furnisher, a house decorator, a farm 

 beautifier, because his business provides for him the necessary means, 

 and the nature of his business is such as to develop a taste for the 

 beautiful as well as the comforts of life. He is a temperate man, as 

 well as chaste in his language, because the source of his income would 



