TWELFTH AXXUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IV 165 



what you want, and when you get that, your boys w'ill see the wisdom 

 of staying right on the farm; and if the boys see it, the girls will stay 

 with the boys. 



Now, gentlemen, I have ho speech to make to you; in fact, I was 

 told that I didn't need to make one — only come here and say a few nice 

 words; and I have done that. 



F. T. Swearingen : How about shipping our live stock to Chi- 

 cago and buying it back as dressed meat. 



Mr. Wallace: That is simply because you are not big enough 

 to do it at home. The Denmark farmer, Avho was as bad off forty 

 years ago as you are, packs his' own pork and finds it the highest 

 priced pork in Europe. Even the God-forsaken Irishman is es- 

 tablishing his own packing house. You can 't do that until you" get 

 to know each other and trust each other. It will come to that, 

 as one of the speakers said, by and hx, but it will not until you 

 get confidence in each other, so that you can work together. We 

 are going to have egg associations over this state, so that the peo- 

 ple in the cities will know the taste of fresh eggs, and those 

 eggH will be worth five cents a dozen more than the average. There 

 is no telling what we will do when we once get together. I don't 

 blame the people for being separate up to this date, because the 

 circumstances of the time have developed individualism in us — 

 necessarily so. The man who came to the prairies came as a 

 stranger; he had to depend upon himself, and he did his own 

 thinking and did just as he pleased. So he has learned that he 

 is h-ufificient for all things ; that is his idea ; and it was necessary 

 at one time. But now the time has come when w^e must get 

 together and understand each other. This association is a great 

 object lesson in getting together. By and by we will not send 

 the hog to Chicago to come back to be .eaten. I will tell you how 

 to start this': Every mother's son of you pack your own pork this 

 winter. Kansas w^astes $7,000,000 a year, so her station says, in 

 sending hogs to Kansas City and Chicago to be killed and come 

 back to be eaten. Just learn how to pack your own pork, and 

 make a garden for your wife and raise your own vegetables. Learn 

 how to encourage your neighbor, and get a social center in every 

 township, and consult with each other about this whole world of 

 agriculture. You will get along a Avhole lot better if you will look 

 a little after your school and get rid of your six-pupil schools. 



A Member: We will have to go to town if we get together on 

 that. 



