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of others, or are we camp followers leaving to coming gener- 

 ations that pioneer work which alone can save? You and I 

 have each 400,000,000 brain cells, and there is no full, free 

 manhood until every cell is developed. Where do we stand 

 in the list? These God-given powers are not for selfish use, 

 but to increase for the enrichment of the world, the moving 

 back of the wall of the centuries, the bringing in of the glory 

 of the man that sometime is to be. Are we translating these 

 simple corn lessons in our yearly experiences for our own 

 enrichment and the blessing of the world, or are we going to 

 the store or to our neighbor's cribs, not knowing whether seed 

 is adapted to our environment or not? Are you standing 

 straight in your field or are you a leaner? It is time for us 

 to translate the little everyday experiences of farm life into 

 big problems of actual service and divine potentiality. 



There is an old saying that "An honest man is the noblest 

 work of God," but there seems to be varying definitions of 

 honesty. There is as loud a call for this attribute in the corn 

 field as in trade. No man can cheat nature and be true to 

 himself. In the warp and woof of life every false thread 

 weakens the fabric, and God, through nature, is exacting of 

 us a full equivalent. You and I need to wake to a larger 

 appreciation of our obligations, certain that by so doing the 

 kernels will increase and the sum total of human comfort be 

 greatly augmented. 



If there is a cry for more wheat in the west, more cotton 

 in the south, more potatoes, sheep, cattle, hogs everywhere, 

 we may hear the call for more corn in New England. Listen, 

 brother farmers, to the cry going up to-day from ruined 

 countries and starving Europe, as well as hungry America, and 

 prepare to do this year better service, to grow more corn per 

 acre, than ever before, that burdens now bearing so heavily 

 may be lifted. Profoundly am I convinced of the increased 

 value of the corn crop and necessity for finding that on every 

 farm. We face a year when one-man farming must govern 

 because of inability to get competent help or pay the wages 

 men obtain in certain other lines of work. No farmer can 

 find justification for paying wages demanded unless certain 

 he can utilize the same to a profit. The hour has struck 



