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investigations of our servants here at the College of Agriculture 

 and elsewhere, and make for ourselves a better place in which to 

 live. 



I heard, when I was a boy at my father's fireside, that the best 

 place to raise a boy honestly was on the farm, and I know it to be 

 a truth. Today, as never before, the best place to raise a boy or 

 girl is in the country, on the farm, in the farmer's home. I ask 

 no better thing for my children than that they shall have a home 

 on the farm, under the conditions that are made possible by the 

 work that has been going on for these several years in the interest 

 of agriculture. I am sure that they will be happy, that their 

 lives will result in good to those who come to their homes and with 

 whom they are associated; and finally, when they have the call, 

 as their fathers have had, they shall not have lived in vain, for 

 God never put a man into this world to live like a vulture, just to 

 live and to die, but he put us all here with a great privilege, and 

 that privilege is to develop and leave the world better for us having 

 lived. Money, except where used for the development of the best 

 things in the world, never made the world much happier. Men can- 

 not eat it. If they could, many would have died of indigestion. 



Again, I want to thank the gentlemen who have welcomed us 

 tonight, and I assure them in your behalf and mine, that we ap- 

 preciate their kind words. We shall go away glad that we have 

 been among you, and we hope to come again. 



ADDRESS. 



(Hon. B. L. Newlon, Lewistown, Member Board of Agriculture.) 



It is very gratifying, indeed, to see this splendid audience of 

 Missouri farmers. Not only are we glad to have 

 so many farmers with us each time, but we are 

 glad to have with us from year to year a number 

 of business men. The business men by their at- 

 tendance at these farmers' meetings are indicat- 

 ing that they are taking an interest in the welfare 

 of the farmer. The great commercial and agri- 

 cultural and industrial associations are realizing 

 E. L. Newlon. the fact that their interests and the farmers' 

 interests are so closely allied that they are working hand in hand 

 for the common good. Working along with these and taking the 



