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told him it was impossible as business would not let me get 

 away from home, and then he said, " When you get up there 

 this afternoon don't tell them you have come unprepared, and 

 then reach in your pocket and pull out a thousand, more or less, 

 sheets of paper." So I brought two with me and if I get 

 through with what is there I will consider myself lucky and you 

 will probably feel yourselves more fortunate. 



I do not feel much like talking as I left home yesterday at 

 4 o'clock and have been on the road all the time until I reached 

 here at nearly 12 o'clock today. 



Air. Caven took it upon himself to ask me to come here 

 and say a few words, but he has yet failed to give me an explana- 

 tion of why it was me he wished to come unless it was like the 

 boy who took his mother to the railway station. Bye and bye 

 he whispered to his mother. His mother went up to the railway 

 agent and said, "Please, sir, when does the 4:10 train go?" 

 " Ten minutes past four." She went back and sat down. In a 

 few minutes the boy whispered to her again and she went up to 

 the agent and said, " Please, sir, when does the 4 :10 train go?" 

 Again the answer, " Ten minutes past four." She repeated 

 this several times and finally the agent, becoming exasperated, 

 said, "Why do you ask me this all the time?" "Please, sir, 

 don't feel bad about it, but my little boy likes to see you wag 

 your jaw." Perhaps that is the case with Mr. Caven. 



I do not expect to agree with a great many here and I am 

 going to take just one section of dairying, just so far as handling 

 the cow is concerned. I am not going into details of handling 

 the product or anything else. I will take the animal, feed her 

 and produce milk as cheaply as possible. In the cow I have found 

 that we have the power, the machinery and everything for con- 

 verting that feed into milk without any additional work upon the 

 part of the farmer. 



We started out sometime ago giving our cows prepared feed, 

 prepared, you might say, all but the digesting for the cows, and 

 we used up considerable capital finding out that the cows could 

 ■do that just as well as machinery. 



