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stimulates these by just and proper treatment, will reap the 

 larsrest harvest of crain both in dollars and in manhood. 



No man can be a true student of this problem of structure, 

 as related to purpose, without being led out of himself and 

 made to see something of the largeness of little things lying 

 all about. He touches the hidden springs of life, reaches 

 after the mystery of creation, and out of research comes to 

 know the worth and dignity of life itself. 



Study cows, but more than all study functions as indicated 

 by structure. Engaged as you are in establishing your own 

 individual family of this or that magnificent breed, let the 

 thouijht of type be uppermost, and weed, and breed, with 

 special emphasis laid upon the most harmonious structure 

 throughout. 



Intensify powers of maternity by allowing them freer scope. 

 Set the trend of individual desires along the line of intensive 

 production. Cultivate natural tendencies, and bend all to- 

 wards one given centre. In this way there must follow a 

 family alike in type, uniform in production, prepotent in 

 breeding. Here is the doorway to future farm operations. 

 Men talk of the hardships of the farm as compared with the 

 mill and shop. There are hardships there, but they will never 

 be removed by keeping our eyes fixed on the small end of 

 the business. 



Men with large conception, definite purposes and deter- 

 mination, will be reaching out after the solution of the great 

 problem we are discussing to-day, and, reaching, find that 

 larger life which will bring its compensations. Failure never 

 comes from positive, but negative, thinking ; and there is 

 nothing negative in a good dairy cow. She inspires and 

 reflects bright thino;s. If we believe in the farm home and 

 the home farm, there is a work for us to do in checking the 

 drift of the present moment, in bringing to the forefront the 

 fact that there is a way by which men may put their energies 

 into the prolilems on the farm, find substantial returns, and 

 make men of themselves while so doing. 



Nowhere is there a better opportunity than when engaged 

 in transplanting our conceptions and desires upon the animals 

 under our care, and making them willing servants to work 

 out our purposes. 



