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great principles of co-operation and competition I find among- 

 the farmers, and these two great principles are at the bottom of 

 all commercial and national trade, and everything of the kind. 

 I am pleased to see the farmers raise the question as tu who 

 really has the right of leadership. 



I must say, I am somewhat in sympathy with home talent. I 

 torgot to say, I am from Buchanan county. I am a farmer ; al- 

 ways have taken some interest in agricultural questions. I liave 

 been interested in the fair business there for nearly a lifetime, 

 and am yet. W'hile I have expressed the wish to be retired 

 after being seventy-four years old, they haven't retired me. 

 They are violating the rules of professorships, schools and col- 

 leges, and I guess the churches and all. Pardon me, if I say 

 something that is a little out of order, a little extreme; excuse 

 it, because I am an old boy and should have been relieved long 

 ago; but I haven't quit and they haven't discharged me— I want 

 an honorable discharge. 



But I have been remarkably pleased over the feeling and com- 

 petition between the leadership and the rank and file. I 

 have the greatest of respect for professors. The}- can frequenth- 

 reduce to a mathematical point questions that we can not full\ 

 comprehend, as plain as twice 2 is 4, and generally a farmer can 

 not make his problems that plain. I am always glad to get sug- 

 gestions from the men that can make it mathematically plain. 

 I turn my cattle on bluegrass and feed them a little grain, etc. 

 Perhaps I would not be too honest to try to make it appear, 

 when I sell them, that they are wholly corn-fed cattle. I plead 

 guilty to these things. Selfishness is one of the laws of nature. 

 It exists in Buchanan county. It is not strange at all that pro- 

 fessors should be suspicious and raise important questions. 



Mr. Frankun: Our friend from Story county, if he will 

 look around, he will see quite a number of farmers here: he is 

 not alone in his ideas. I desire to take the ground of the hanpv 

 medium, between the two extremes. We need the professors 

 and the imported speaker, and we also need the home talent. 

 One of the best institutes I ever attended in my life was at a 

 place where an imported speaker had the ability to bring out the 

 hidden talent of the farmers and caused them to ask questions. 



