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candled them, and evidently the candler knew his business, for he said 

 they were extra eggs, were laid yesterday. That was true and he showed 

 his skill, but he would not take them. He said he didn't want them; 

 they were too good. I went to another commission man and he said he 

 would be glad to have my eggs, but he would only allow me five cents less 

 than the market price quoted in the papers. The result is, I don't know 

 what to do with my eggs, except to eat them myself. Then I went to 

 another place, a fancy grocer, and I gave him a commission of five cents 

 a dozen for all the eggs he sold, to be guaranteed on my part that they were 

 delivered to him within thirty-six hours of the time they were laid, and he 

 sold a few cases, but he said his customers really did not care for that kind 

 of egg. 



Mr. F. R. Stevens: I simply think that I ought to say, with all 

 respect to our friend from the sand-hills of Jersey, that I have met in my 

 years experience a great many farmers who take the same view of life that 

 our friend does. I am willing to admit to him that a city man with only 

 city training is as much out of place on a farm as a man is from the country 

 who had never gone off his farm before and was suddenly called to a bank 

 or clothing store or something Hke that. Both are absolutely out of place. 



Now, we have progressed along lines of scientific training and original 

 work. We know more of scientific training through schools of agriculture, 

 and land is getting better tilled since. I have during the seven or eight 

 years I have been in extension work made it a fundamental principle 

 never, when I met a farmer, give him any kind of advice, unless he first 

 came to me and asked me for my advice. Men typical of our friend from 

 the sand-hills of Jersey have asked for the assistance of the agricultural 

 department of our railroad and the agricultural department of the state 

 and the Federal Government and other experimental and extension stations. 

 Men have applied to me for assistance from among our present practical 

 prosperous farmers, along our lines, and in the country. These men realize, 

 as our friend has said, that there is a great deal that is practical, but they 

 also realize that there is as much to be gained from a knowledge of the 

 scientific end of it as anything else. I saw one man being told certain 

 things to do by a man who is a graduate from an agricultural college. I 

 said to him, ''Why, that fellow is telling you things that would take you 

 fifty years to learn." We have met with the experience of that gentleman 

 and others of his type, in that it takes them fifty year& to learn how to do 

 a thing, but that is not the sort of a graduate agricultural colleges are send- 

 ing out today. The colleges could not do without you, and yet they are 

 going to assist you. 



Mr. Eavenson : There is one thing I can't understand, and possibly 

 some of you gentlemen can explain it to me, and that is: Why the rail- 

 roads charge for refrigeration eight months of the year and only give 

 four? The only reason I have heard advanced is that it averages the cost. 



