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pleasure out of their work as well as attain the most satisfactory 

 pecuniary results. I am glad the time is past when we adopt 

 measures in our business and pursue certain lines on our farms, 

 simply because it is in accordance with the policy pursued by our 

 forefathers, whom, we are sure were the best people on earth. 

 We realize that this is no evidence of inferior judgment on their 

 part, and this is no sign of presumption on our part. With the 

 highest degree of respect and reverence from what we have 

 learned through this source, for the precepts and example thai 

 come to us from past ages, we simply appreciate that conditions 

 aie different in every particular, and it is absolutely necessary 

 that methods should be changed. 



I am told that years ago up in the northern part of the 

 country where I was raised, a candidate for Congress started out 

 on his campaign with a speech and a barrel of whiskey. When 

 he had a meeting he set up his barrel of whiskey, knocked out 

 the head, hung the cups all around it and invited the crowd to 

 help themselves, and while they were doing this he expounded 

 the gospel of that political faith to which he had subscribed. 

 You couldn't carry on a campaign that way now; candidates 

 have changed the program. They used to have a barrel of 

 whiskey and a four hours speech. That proposition won't do 

 now. 



You have heard of the steamboat landing at a prominent 

 place on the Mississippi river with a lot of tired and hungry 

 men. The Captain sent one of them with a five dollar bill to 

 lay in a supply of provisions. When he returned to the boat 

 and was asked what he had got, he reported four dollars and 

 fifty cents worth of whiskey and fifty cents worth of bread. 

 Somebody asked him what in the devil he wanted with so much 

 bread. A campaign now with whiskey and speech wouldn't 

 need much speech. 



Webster's definition of a dairyman may have been a good 

 one when he made his dictionary, but it doesn't cover the case 

 now. It's not up to date. It reminds me of the two darkies who 

 met one morning and one of them was carrying a basket with 



