No. 4.] FEEDING OF DAIRY COWS. 143 



Let me show you what all this means, practically, in dairy 

 farmino;. The man who farms successfully and skilfully in 

 dairy farming will always have abundance of plant food in 

 his soil, and therefore he will keep the sun working for him 

 by giving the sun the raw material out of which to l)uikl 

 plants. If the sun be deprived of that, he does not intend 

 — using the word figuratively — to work ; he will not make 

 bricks for any man without clay. There are men who are 

 all the while running counter to these old foundation laws 

 that were made for agriculturists. One man thinks that it 

 makes no difference how much sunshine he has, or how little. 

 It makes all the difference in the world. 



The sun exerts great energy on the earth all the time ; 

 some of that energy is stored in the corn stalks, and that is 

 the most economical channel through which this energy can 

 be obtained for the feeding of cows. 



It is a hard task to feed a cow successfully, and I am glad 

 it is. I do not want to do the easy jobs that any man can 

 do. I am glad that dairy farming is difficult. I am glad 

 that all farming is hard to do, and that it is at least a little 

 bit hard to make money from farms. If it were easy, it 

 would take a low grade of men to do it, and then you and I 

 would just stay at that low grade ; l)ut because it is difficult, 

 the people of these New England States have done for this 

 country what Scotland has done for the world. You have 

 fertilized it with energy and ingenuity and intelligence, 

 because you have had to wrest what you have gotten from 

 adverse circumstances, qualifying yourselves to do things 

 which are hard to do, but which make you better men for 

 the doino^ of them. When a man l)eiiins to think of ijetting 

 the mastery in agriculture, and does it modestly, the more 

 of real mastery for the service of his fellows comes into his 

 life. 



Now, this corn plant which is stored full of sunshine, put 

 in the soil, will keep on accumulating, and this chart is to 

 show you the rate of accumulation at certam stages of its 

 growth, taken from a comparatively large number of experi- 

 ments. 



