THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 61 



ADDRESS. 



By 

 N. B. Hull, Diamondale, Mich. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : — 



I have got quite a lot of latitude given me this morning. I 

 can spread out in almost any sort of way, and still be on my 

 subject. 



Selection and care of cows, and feeding. That pretty nearly 

 covers the whole field of dairying; if I talked about milking and 

 making butter I would have the whole field. 



If I succeed in getting over this field that has been assigned 

 to me in anything like reasonable time, I shall have to accept the 

 advice of a certain parrot. Two fellows graduated from a col- 

 lege in the east and were room-mates and friends there. After 

 graduating, they sat down to consider earnestly what they would 

 make their lifework. They had been equipped thoroughly, and 

 the question was, what to go into. They talked the matter over 

 very thoroughly and one said, "I believe the ministry is good, 

 they do a lot of good, I will study for the ministry." The other 

 one said, "I will try something else." The one fellow studied 

 at a theological seminary and graduated and had a call to New 

 York. The ether one shipped as a sailor, and was quite success- 

 ful, and finally became a captain of a ship. They both loved 

 birds, and they both bought a parrot. You readily see, a parrot 

 that learned to talk in a minister's home and associated with 

 deacons and deaconnesses would learn a different line of talk than 

 the parrot on ship board. One time the captain ran into New 

 York, and thought he would go and see the minister. "Why 

 not take my parrot to visit with the minister's parrot." He hung 



