SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 39 



The meetings of farmers' clubs partake of the spirit of the 

 New England town meetings, and their unselfish verdict rings 

 true and clear to the wishes of the common people. Gathered 

 together in the farmer's own cosy home, under the auspices of 

 the good housewife, who provides a bounteous dinner; with 

 friendly greetings of famihes, one with another, and in the pres- 

 ence of flowers and little children, with music and laughter, 

 the stern, cruel consideration of business affairs is tempered 

 with love and appreciation of truth and honor and godUness. 



We join with all persons and institutions, whether of the 

 higher or the industrial education, in an effort to make more 

 pleasant and remunerative and more worth living not the 

 lives of the few but of the great masses of our people. 



Allow me then, humbly and in the spirit of sincerity which 

 prompts the good-will of thirty thousand brother farmers, to 

 convey in their behalf my hearty greeting to old M. A. C. today, 

 and to bid her Godspeed in her career of endeavor for great 

 public good. 



