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God and everything, and I regret very much to say that the com- 

 mercial interests of this country has so worshipped money that 

 it cannot see anything but the Almighty Dollar, and I hope that 

 we will get over that. Lets get a bigger and broader notion of 

 things. I can never let that subject alone because I have seen 

 so much of it. I have seen some men stooping to little ''white" 

 lies and also big black ones, in order to get a man to buy some- 

 thing that he did not want to buy. Men like that worship the 

 Almighty Dollar. I wish we could get that out of our head, let 

 us be honest. 



I have a son who lives in Berlin and he writes me occasion- 

 ally and he can't write about the war because he has to be neu- 

 tral, and he wrote me this: Father, there is a very marked dif- 

 ference between the business man of Germany and of America. 

 To illustrate, when a German builds a railroad, he tries to build 

 it as well as he possibly can, he builds it as a monument to him- 

 self and the Fatherland. When an American builds a railroad 

 he sees how cheap he can build it and see how much he can skin 

 the people. There is one thing about the German people, and 

 that is sincerity and stability and what they do they do well, and 

 that is the difference between them and us, as the young man 

 used it as an illustration. 



Q : What kind of corn do you put in your silo ? 



A: I have always used the common field corn, the Silver 

 King, and I wait until it is about one-third ripe and the lower 

 blades begin to die, then it has its greatest food value, that is 

 when I cut it and get it into the silo before a frost. I have seen 

 it grow 15 to 18 tons and I have seen reports in the State of 

 Illinois that runs 20 tons. A great many men use sorghum and 

 corn, but don't plant them together, I plant them separately. I 

 would not plant soy beans with the corn, but plant them separate- 

 ly and when filling the silo use two loads of corn to one of soy 

 beans." (Applause). 



Meeting adjourned at 5:00 p. m. until 8:00 p. m. of the 

 same day. 



