He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in luiic-li.— LuKK li"i:10. 



MYSELF AND MY NEIGHBORS. 



WHO IS MY XEiii)iu<iu!— LIKE 10 ; cg. 



HAVE just returned from the Ohio State 

 Fair, and I need liardly tell you that I 

 met there a great number ot neigiiljors ; 

 and the ]»leasantest part ot it all was, 

 they seemed to be so neighborly to each 

 other. And then, again, what a w'onderful 

 open book are the agricultural fairs and 

 conventions and expositions, that are get- 

 ting to be so prominent a feature the world 

 over! What wonderful creatures we are ! 

 much alike, yet different. Now, I love bees, 

 and I love machinery ; and I love strawber- 

 ries too. It seems to me I have said some- 

 thing about it before. Well, Xeighbor 11. 

 likes these things too. although 1 can not 

 awaken much enthusiasm in him on the 

 strawberry question. lie just says, '' I sup- 

 pose so,"' or '• Like enough," and then turns 

 around to look at something else. Now. he 

 wanted to see the cattle ; but I didn't care a 

 cent for the cattle ; or. at least. I thought I 

 didn't. l>ut I concluded I would go around 

 with him, as he had been around witli me so 

 much, and so we went through the cattle- 

 stalls. I do like to see Jeiseys, come to thiidv 

 of it, for we have got a little Jersey cow of 

 our own. It is that Jersey calf I traded bees 

 for, and now she has got a big calf of her 

 own. 



Well, after we looked at the Jersevs. Neigh- 

 bor II. pointed out the Holstcius", the Dur- 

 hams, the Devons, and evt'r so many more I 

 can not rememlx'r now. At one "stall. II. 

 was adniirjiiga nice-looking fat slick calf. I 

 liked the calf too, because he was jiretty and 



looked happy. Then ji nice - looking man 

 came forward, and, siiid he. '• That calf was 

 just six months old day before yesterday." 

 And those standing aromid made a great 

 wonderment. But that was nothing strange 

 to me. because I did not know what a calf 

 ought to be at six montlis old. if he had said, 

 '• That strawberry-i>lant was set in the pot 

 only ten days ago," then I should have been 

 all attention. 



AVhen we had admired and fondled the 

 calf, the owner gave a slap on a great 

 big animal that stood next stall, saying with 

 complacency and pride, ''And here is his fath- 

 er. He weighs so and so." I innocently 

 ventured the remark, that the calf's papa 

 I had proba])ly had extra ti-eatment to make 

 I him look so slick and i)luinp. " No, sir," 

 I said the man; " you would hardly believe 

 ! it when I tell yoii that his daily feed has 

 lieeii only three pints of meal three times a 

 1 day; but we found that was too much for 

 I him, and we changed it to onlv twice a day." 

 May be I have not got it right, b'ut that was the 

 sum and substance. The point is. that this 

 man was all Ilolstein ; in fact, he had IIol- 

 ! stein at iiis lingers" ends. The man himself 

 ! was bright and intelligent, and one could at 

 j a glance see that he was master of his biis- 

 i iness. No\;-, I am sure that he has a nici> 

 ] and beautiful farm, with tine barns, and 

 I that he rejoices in peace and iiienty— the re- 

 I ward (iod gives him for l)eiiig faitlifid with 

 few things his herd of llolsteins periiaps. 

 I admired the calf, the calf's papa, and the 

 j owner of them all. 



i Pretty soon afterward a man stood by a 

 ' self-binding reaper. It was much simpler 



