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learned to do so at school. Pretty soon I 

 heard that he had sold six of his cows and 

 bought some splendid, high-testing Guern- 

 seys to take their places in his herd. Isn't 

 that good? He was just paying for the 

 privilege of milking those scrubs, and the 

 good cows will furnish a profit for buying 

 more books and other things that his boys 

 and girls need. 



October tenth was set by our State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture as Seed Corn Picking 

 Day. I explained how important it was that 

 farmers pick their seed corn early, before 

 the first frosts can catch it and kill the germ 

 so that it will not grow next Spring, and 

 asked the pupils that day to each go out in 

 the fields at home and pick for me the best 

 ear of seed corn they could find and bring 

 it to school the next morning. Then I asked 

 one of the fathers, who was a good seed corn 

 judge, to come and talk to the children on 

 the good points of an ear of corn for seed. 

 He came and gave a splendid, sensible talk, 

 illustrating it with the ears of corn the chil- 

 dren had brought. You should have seen 

 their eyes shine the children's who found 

 this information about real things most in- 

 teresting; the man who was doing something 



