THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 153 



Prof. Lee: — I am reminded of the man from Illinois who 

 went to Kentucky for the purpose of buying a horse. A man 

 down there started to show him what he had. He said, "This 

 one did splendidly last year." Then he told the step and the per- 

 formance of another horse and took up considerable of the 

 gentleman's time, and finally they came down to another barn. 

 He showed him a fine string of horses and colts. He said, "One 

 or two years from now they will take anything in the country, 

 and here is one that will make a mile in less than two," and so 

 on he went down the string. The Illinois man finally got a 

 chance to say, "I don't care a rap what you have that did so well 

 last year, or what you got that will do so well next year, what 

 I want is an "iser." 



I hope when you send your young men over to your own 

 University, and we take them under our tender care, that when 

 in three years from now they return to Clinton they will not find 

 what the young man in Kentucky found after he had left home 

 and gone to Kansas for three years. A young lad when he first 

 leaves home always remembers what he had at home. He went 

 to Kansas and after spending three years in that state, he went 

 back home. Of course he wanted to see his father and mother. 

 He told them how glad he was to see them, then he excused him- 

 self and said he would have to go and see the old horse he used 

 to drive, and he wanted to see the cows and everything his father 

 had when he was at home. He saw the horse and it recognized 

 him. He saw the cows and they were the same. Before he re- 

 turned to the house he remembered his father used to have some 

 hogs. He got over into the hog-yard and looked at them and 

 didn't say a word. He went into the house and said, "Father, I 

 can't understand the lack of appreciation you have towards what 

 we call progress and accumulation of wealth. Now the three 

 hogs you had three years ago are still there. Why haven't you 

 sold them and put in some new ones?" "Well, my son, we 

 simply keep them to eat up the swill." 



Shady Grove butter is a new thing in Clinton. If you had 

 all been near me you would have remembered what I said five 

 years ago. If butter was good, bread would be thin, but if butter 



