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taken better care of my stock, and they have taken more pride in 

 their work, and they have taken better care of everything I have 

 on the farm simply from their association with that Berkshire 

 pig. That is true. 1 got a letter from a man in this state, and 

 that man told this story. He said : ' My neighbor bought a 

 horse, and he paid $125 for him. He claimed it would do 

 everything but talk. He kept it along and took good care of it, 

 and at the end of eight months he sold that horse for $750, 

 actual figures. He found a man who paid him $750; and that 

 man made $625 on that horse. Now, then,' he says, 'I am 

 ready to pay seventy -five cents for a book on horse -training that 

 will enable me to do the same thing. If you have got a book 

 which you will sell for seventy-five cents, or I might possibly 

 give a dollar, if you have got a book which will tell me how to 

 do that thing. I'll send you seventy-five cents anyway.' I 

 wrote that man that what his friend did when he bought that 

 horse for $125 and sold him for $750 was to take brains right 

 out of his head; he took part of himself, and wrought by his 

 own skill, and put it under the skin of that horse. That is 

 what he did. You can't learn how to do that out of a book 

 for seventy-five cents, or $75, or $750. That is a part of the 

 man. So it is, my friends; every man who sends away from his 

 farm a good peach, or a poor peach, a good apple, or a poor 

 apple, sends a part of himself right along in the basket with that 

 fruit every time. It takes brains to be successful in any line, 

 and you can't get away from it. Good or bad, high-priced or 

 cheap, every package that you send away from your farm con- 

 tains a part of yourself, and no human being can put on paper 

 so as to show you just how these things are done. You have 

 to associate with them yourself, and dig them out, and rub in 

 the facts you learn so as to make the most of them. The man 

 who is unwilling to do that, who is satisfied to grub along, will 

 soon find his own level. A man with no more pride than that 

 in his work is really to be pitied. What will become of him 

 I don't know, and 1 don't believe he does himself." 



The President: "In Connecticut we believe in pedigreed 

 stock, and we have here in Connecticut some full-blooded, 

 Yankee pedigreed stock. And I think you will agree with 

 me when I announce the name of a sample of that stock, 

 J. H. Hale, who will now address you." 



