No. 4.] BUSINESS SIDE OF AGRICULTURE. 99 



he did not stop to think that it cut off a beautiful view from 

 the family sitting room, but built his ice house. A little 

 later it was a little more convenient for him to build a pig 

 pen just at the left of the kitchen, and it went there. There 

 were trees in front of the house which if he had cut away 

 he would have opened up a beautiful picture of the river and 

 valley beyond. He made money and paid the mortgage off 

 his farm ; but one day his daughter, who had not seen much 

 of life, ran away for the sake of going somewhere. A little 

 later his son skipped out with $260. Now the old man is 

 crippled mentally and physically, but he has got some money. 

 Now he cannot work his farm, and he is living on his money 

 and hobbling around all the time. 



The other man had a bigger mortgage, but he got the ice 

 house out of the way, the trees out of the way and the pig 

 pen out of the way, and has been cutting brush away and 

 planting shrubs, and has generally improved the place in its 

 appearance, and he has not paid off the mortgage. He is a 

 success as an agriculturist and the other fellow is a failure 

 from the business point of view, even though he got the 

 most money. 



What are we carrying on agricultural operations for? For 

 the sake of making money for money's sake ? Not a bit of it. 

 You want it for what it will give yourself and your family; 

 for what it will enable you to do in a public way, for the 

 good of the public and your family. The one great thing is 

 what you can get out of it for yourself and your family. 



I had many points that I wanted to touch on, but I do not 

 believe there is time. There are a good many things to be 

 talked about along this line. 



The spraying which was spoken of yesterday is a plant 

 life insurance that we cannot afford to neglect. There is a 

 wonderful chance to improve by working along this line. 



We do not want to expect that the experiment stations 

 and the colleges and the law makers are going to do every- 

 thing. We are expecting altogether too much from them. 

 They are doing a grand work and are capable of doing great 

 things, but we are beginning, are we not, to lean on them 

 too much? Are we doing enough for ourselves? We cer- 

 tainly cannot expect them to do everything for us. They 



