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roads are enterprising, — and the hoys go and visit the 

 herds, and they proceed to judge the animals. Then there 

 is a set of judges to judge the judges, and those judges de- 

 cide upon which boys or young men are deserving of this, 

 that and the other medal. We should build up esprit de 

 corps — pride. 



An old Irishman built a ditch for me, and it was such a 

 perfect piece of work that it tilled me with admiration ; and 

 I said, " O'Brien, that is a ditch fit for a king." And the 

 old man took off his hat, and said, " Sir, the O'Briens were 

 kings once." That was a grand spirit. He had not forgot- 

 ten that way back in the history of the sixth and seventh 

 centuries the O'Briens were kings of Munster and Leinster, 

 and he took pride in digging the ditch well. That is one 

 of the things I feel as though we lacked, — this spirit, this 

 pride, that we need as farmers. No wonder men sneer at 

 the farmer, because he is trying to sneer at himself all the 

 time. " I don't want my boy to work as I have." Is there 

 any reason why a boy should not work, as well as his lather? 

 The mother says, " I don't want my daughter to work as I 

 have worked." Is there any reason why a daughter should 

 not work, as well as her mother? What a degenerate 

 daughter of a worthy mother would she be. I want the day 

 to come once more when the American farmer will be the 

 peer of any man on this globe, and we must begin with the 

 boy. We must do something with the coming generation 

 to hold these farms and keep the farms against the stress of 

 the current of the outside relations and things ; we must 

 bejrin and reach down at the boy, the child. We have 

 the farm school and the district school. We must begin to 

 sow the seed of education, and the boy will see that there 

 is something in farming beside unrequited toil. We must 

 show him that it offers some scope for the use of his brain, 

 and that when he looks at an animal he is looking at the 

 product of the genius of the Almighty. 



A man wrote me a letter the other day, asking me to 

 come up and help him out, and he said, " The more I study 

 this cow, I think it is most mysterious." I answered him 

 that from the days of Hippocrates and Aristotle down to the 



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