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upon your farm, or wbieli line of live stock baudlccl, has paid 

 you tlic uiost net profit ? Some of you can. I dare say most 

 of you cannot. If you know nothing about where you have 

 gotten your profits, wherein has your experience of ten years 

 upon a farm profited you in being able to ]nore intelligently 

 direct your efiorts for the next ten years ? I am a farmer, the 

 same as you, and I did not come here 1x3 run down the farmer, 

 nor to separate my lot from yours ; but I want to maintain 

 here that our good Creator knew what he was doing when he 

 made the farmer. lie gave him good, strong hands and arms 

 because there was work to do in the world, and the farmer has 

 his fair share of this world's work to do, but he also knew 

 what he was doing when he put a part of the farmer's anat- 

 omy above his ears, and put brains therein. I presume he 

 thought the farmer would use those brains to more intelli- 

 gently and more cunningly direct the efforts of his hands, so 

 that the work of those hands would avail him more. Let me 

 illustrate this. A young man from the fruit section of Mich- 

 igan was sent by his father to our agricultural college to take 

 a course in horticulture. After completing the course the 

 young man returned to bis father's farm. The father had 10 

 acres of apple orchard on his 80-acre farm. The boy said, 

 " Father, let me take this orchard, prune it, fertilize it and 

 spray it, as I have been taught to do." The father was a 

 hard-headed old farmer, and, looking the boy over, he said, 

 '' Humph, you have been down to that college and got the 

 big head, ha\'e you ? I want you to understand that I grew 

 apples before you were born." The boy was a chip off the old 

 block. Looking his father in the face he said, " Dad, it looks 

 to me as though you have made a mistake." " Why ? " asked 

 the father. The son replied, " Either you made a mistake 

 when you furnished the monoy to send me to college to learn 

 what I now know, or else you are making a mistake when you 

 will not let me use that knowledge." This was a hard nut for 

 the old gentleman to crack. Finally he said to the l)oy, " Take 

 the orchard and try it one year; I guess you cannot spoil it in 

 that time." The boy took the orchard, pruned it, sprayed it 

 and cared for it as he had been taught to do, and he made more 

 profit oil' that 10 acres of apple orchard that year than his 



