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practical disquisition upon that subject, and they liissed me 

 off the stage. They made it so hot I could not stay there. 

 That is literally the fact. The Hon. Harris Lewis, a man 

 whose memory I respect and whom I respected greatly 

 during his lifetime, got up and in that inimitalile way that 

 was all his own wanted to know, when I said that the cows 

 at Cornell University drank sixty pounds of hot water a 

 day, if I kept the hoUer breed of cows up at Cornell. AVcll, 

 you are not particularly interested in that, only as a little 

 historical matter. Eleven years from that time I went to 

 the same town and delivered the same address before the 

 State Dairymen's Association, and they all rose in their 

 places and voted me one of themselves. They wanted to 

 know how we warmed the water for our cows ; how much it 

 cost per cow a day ; how we secured the warm sta1:>les we 

 had ; what was the cheapest method, and it all went down, 

 after eleven years, just as easy as could be. And so, sir, I 

 want to say that, while steam and electricity have brought 

 the balance of the world a long way in its march of civiliza- 

 tion, the farmer has kept pace. I do not want to hear any 

 more about the farmer laoo'ing behind. Sir, two hiohly 

 paid professors, holding full professorships in Cornell Uni- 

 versity, last Saturday lectured to a body of men about this 

 size, and tried to show them bv churn and table how to 

 make butter. That is advancement. Those professors did 

 not feel that they had lost their dignity in undertaking to 

 teach those farmers how to make butter, and they were 

 anxious to learn. I say that there has been advancement, 

 and greater advancement among the agricultural classes 

 than among almost an}' other in the land. 



