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this method they build up In the community a farmer citizenship which is 

 the most desirable. That in the end I think is the most important feature 

 of the production of livestock in Illinois, or in Missouri, or Kansas, or Iowa, 

 or any other state. It builds up a better class of citizens than you can build 

 up in any other manner. I thank you. 



Q. Mr. Chairman, I should like to ask a question. In these days when 

 oil meal is so high, is there any substitute? 



Prof. COCHEL: Well, I am feeding today 121 cattle. I am feeding them 

 a little oil meal, but not nearly as much as when it was comparatively 

 cheaper. I was very fortunate, however, to get it before the raise in price. 

 It cost me, delivered on the farm, thirty-six dollars a ton. I am feeding 

 instead of two pounds a day, which I would like to feed, less than a pound 

 a day. Oil meal has a value as an appetizer and' causes cattle to consume 

 a little bit more grain and mixed roughage. It is for this reason I like to 

 feed a little to them almost regardless of price. 



THE NEAR EASTERN RELIEF. 



PRESIDENT MANN: There is a matter I should like to speak of this 

 morning, if you will pardon me. There is a little country over in the old 

 world, a little farming country, not very good land, not very good farms, 

 mostly a grazing country, a country that has been devoted to that form of 

 agriculture as far back as history goes. This little country lies in between 

 Russia, Persia and Turkey. It is the first little nation to establish Chris- 

 tianity as a national church. They carried the flag of Christianity all through 

 the Dark Ages, and still carry it. They belong to the Aryan race, to which 

 we belong, but are considerably mixed in their racial characters. It is a 

 good example of what people have done in the past when hunger drove them 

 to war. Whenever Persia, Turkey or Russia became hungry they ran into 

 this little agricultural country, took away the food, killed off the men, carried 

 away the women many times, notwithstanding that there had been many 

 agreements to regard the rights of that little country by the nations around 

 it. There had been times when even England joined in that agreement, but 

 whenever the people around this country became hungry they resorted to 

 violence on this little country. Even since the great war Turkey ran in 

 there, killed the men, carried away the women and left from a hundred to a 

 hundred and ten thousand children. Now we are asked in this country that 

 we devote some of the surplus food we have to support these children for a 

 while. We are doing that under the name of the Near Eastern Relief. 



The Near Eastern Relief was authorized by Congress, the only institu- 

 tion of the kind, except the Red Cross, which had been authorized by 

 Congress. The administration expenses are borne from a separate fund, 

 and in asking the farmers of Illinois and other people to contribute to the 

 support of these children it means that a dollar given or a bushel of corn 

 given reaches those children. The expenses of transportation, the expenses 

 of administration are not taken out of any contribution that we make. 



Now they have nearly a car of corn raised in Monmouth. They need a 

 little more corn to help to finish that car from the farmers and people 

 around Monmouth. They are raising a car in my town this week. I don't 

 know whether I will get home to help them tomorrow or not. I hope they 

 will have it done. 



This is a case where the farmer can eat his pie and have it, too. They 

 say we can't eat our pie and have it, too, but our speaker last night told you 

 how easy it was; that, if we give away a bushel df corn we increase the rest 

 of the corn which remains far beyond the value of that one bushel. That 

 is a case where we can eat our pie and have it, too. Let us eat some. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 



PRESIDENT MANN: W T e are now ready for the report of the Com- 

 mittee on Resolutions. You all have a vote. Everybody here belongs to the 

 Farmers' Institute and has a vote. If there is any resolution that you don't 



