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storv about the Christ child, born in a manger, who lived to be 

 an example to men, and who died npon the place of skulls. 

 He re])lied, " Oh, no, they have heard that story nntil it is 

 an old story; but did I not call them together, and from that 

 personal contact and interchange of thought did they not get 

 something of an incentive and inspiration to follow the exam- 

 ple of that Man who died that we all might live. His influence 

 woidd drop backward and backward in their lives, and He 

 would have died in vain." What all men need is more encour- 

 agement to do, and do well. 



Let me advise you here to diligently stndy to know best how 

 to do, and then to determine to do your best. Do this, and 

 then stick to yonr farm and to your farm work, for, as the 

 poet said, — 



'Tis a coward who quits a misfortune, 

 'Tis the knave who changes each day. 

 'Tis the fool who wins half the battle 

 Then throws all his chances away. 



The time to succeed is when others, 

 Discouraged, show traces of tire. 

 The battle is won in the home stretch, 

 And won 'twixt the flag and the wire. 



Mr. Wilfrid Wheeler. T would like to ask if the speaker 

 puts his manure onto the land as soon as it is made ? 



Mr. Hull. We have a covered barnyard, with a cement 

 floor, and two or three times a week the manure is hauled out 

 to the fields. Sometimes in the winter, when the weather is 

 bad, the manure may remain in the barnyard for two weeks 

 or more, but practically it is carried to the fields as soon as it 

 is made. It will never be any more valuable than it is then, 

 and that is the time to apply it. 



Mr. E. W. Payne. Suppose the ground is frozen, and you 

 have a side hill, with a brook flowing below it. 



^Fr. Hull. In that case T should not put the manure there. 

 You will not lose as much as you would think, but still you 

 will lose something. Put it on your more level land, where 

 there is something growing. A covered barnyard is a fine 

 thing. You can use it for exercising your young stock, which 



