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the true interest of the Iowa farmer. I want to say, these ideas 

 ought to have died with the other century and that we are now 

 looming up with larger possibilities. It is not possible for you to 

 confine yourselves merely to county lines. I know what I am 

 talking about. We have already saved much wear and labor for 

 the local organization, and we are receiving compensation along 

 the line we are establishing. 



Mr. Wing: I have done a little work in eleven states. You 

 know you men have got the right way here, with a little modifica- 

 tion. It is a hundred times better for you men to get up an insti- 

 tute than to let some central man do it. In New York state they 

 had that very thing. The New York people are bright and nice 

 fellows. The local fellows say, they are going to sent us an insti- 

 tute after a while. When you go to work and dig out an insti- 

 tute yourselves, you relish it ; it does you good. But Heavens, 

 it does seem to me there is a middle ground. Why it would give 

 me joy to spend a week or two weeks with you. You know the 

 hardest thing on earth is to go to a meeting somewhere, and then 

 go and sit in a hotel a few days and wait for another. It is true 

 you have got lots of good men in your state. A local man, if 

 you can get him on his legs to talk, is a valuable man. I was 

 thinking about some men I knew. There is Van Alstine of New 

 York, a great big hearted fellow ; one of the best dairy teachers 

 in the country; he worked his way right up from the ground. 

 You could get Van Alstine ; it might cost you maybe $50 a week. 

 I could go over the list of fellows from Ohio, Nebraska and all 

 over; men whom you all know; they could come for a month; 

 but they coudn't come for a day. 



Don't you know, boys, all I have got, I got from coming in 

 contact with some other man and things. I remember when I 

 was a child I heard a lecturer ; he gave me a new contact, new im- 

 pulses ; I dreamed a dream ; I got a new idea as to what a man 

 might be — that man didn't grow in my barn yard, or my neigh- 

 bor's either. I believe it does help to get the very best men you 

 can get, if you can just arrange it ; you can have a succession of 

 counties lying close together, and then sort oi agree on some men 

 you may desire to have. 



