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covered that land at least eight times with manure in the i8 years 

 that I have had it. 



: How many cows do you keep ? 



A : About twenty. The government of the United States 

 located at Algona, a dairy expert; he stayed there for five years 

 and the theory of the government was to try and determine 

 whether it would pay one of these co-operative creameries to 

 hire a man to work among the patrons. I could talk to you 

 about that experiment from now until twelve o'clock tonight. 

 When he came there, there were three silos within a range of 

 three miles from Algona; when he left, there were sixty. When 

 he came 90 per cent of the cream was sour, and when he left 90 

 per cent of it was sweet. I can put my finger on a half dozen 

 young men living there that had dirty barns, tubercular cattle 

 and did not know it, bringing in milk to be consumed by the 

 people. You don't find that condition today, for they have got 

 as pretty, clean barns as you will find in the county, and the 

 cleanest milk is being delivered to the consuming public in the 

 city of Algona as you can ask for, and that is as far as I can go. 



1 went to Pocahontas county and talked silos and I talked 

 as hard as I could to get those fellows to build silos. I said to 

 these people, I will be glad to answer any questions that I can. 

 Well, there were about twelve questions asked. I knew a good 

 many of the good people of that county and after the meeting 

 was over and while I was walking down the street, a farmer, a 

 good friend of mine, came over to me and took me by the arm^ 

 and said: "J^^^t tell me what one of those durned silos is?" 

 (Laughter). Since that day I have never talked about silos 

 without defining just what they are. He would not ask that 

 question in a crowd because he was afraid they would laugh at 

 him. I had not struck the keynote. If you want to ask any 

 questions I would be mighty glad to answer what I can. I can- 

 not answer every question that is asked, — there is no man living 

 that can do that, — but I will do the best I can. I want you to 

 be frank with me and I will be frank with you, and just ask me 

 any question and I hope I may be able to answer. 



I keep five horses on my farm, and all the way from 15 to 



