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day we put it at thirty cents a dozen and the next day at 

 thirty-five cents a dozen, and the result was that we got 

 several hundred dollars out of that field of corn, — more 

 money than I had ever seen in my life before, and more than 

 I ever expected to see. But the lesson in culture I got 

 from that crop of corn and the results coming out of it have 

 been worth to me hundreds and thousands of dollars. Cult- 

 ure, culture, culture, — more of it. It will not only kill 

 witch grass, but keep crops growing. That was a lesson 

 to me that has been of business value. If you start in to 

 get rid of this grass, and make up your mind you are going 

 to do it, you do it. 



We do not believe thoroughly enough in agriculture. 

 There are a good many men teaching scientific agriculture 

 in our agricultural colleges that have not the thorough be- 

 lief in it that is needed to impress it on the boy. Even 

 Brother Jordan feels many of the agricultural college boys 

 may be tempted to do better somewhere else. If you make 

 up your minds you can succeed in agriculture, you will. If 

 you do not succeed the first season, keep it up the next. 

 The Lord hates quitters. There has been a good deal of 

 talk about abandoned farms in New England. Some one 

 has been trying to explain why there are so many aban- 

 doned farms. There are no more abandoned farms than 

 abandoned factories, yet you have not given up manufact- 

 uring. I drove fifty miles in the Connecticut valley with 

 Professor Bailey of Cornell. We drove from Springfield, 

 Mass., down through Longmeadow and along down through 

 the valley to Middletown, Conn., and we found one aban- 

 doned farm and one abandoned factory and one abandoned 

 theological seminary. Do you believe that Congregation- 

 alism is going to die out because there is an abandoned 

 theological seminary ? This seminary was located years ago 

 way back in the country, and modern desires of modern 

 clergymen have driven the seminaries to the town, where 

 they could see more of " the world, the flesh and the devil," 

 and be better able to warn you and me against them. 



I picked up a couple of farms in a county adjoining my 

 own. They were situated on a big hill top, unsuitable for 

 the work of the farmers who were located there. They 



