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shouldn't get discourag-ed but put on more steam and a little 

 more pressure and you will get it. No man has ever been harder 

 up than I have been. I worked out by the month for six years 

 when I was a young chap and quit a good job of $ioo a month 

 and board to work for myself and never regretted it; and I want 

 tO assure young men that farming is the greatest vocation. Why 

 do these young men quit the farm and come in town and be some- 

 body's hired man? Why is it? Go on a farm; a farmer is a 

 business man and if other men can succeed at farming you can 

 do it too. We want to encourage more of the young men to 

 stay on the farm. 



Q: You would not recommend the sowing of winter rye 

 for dairy cows? 



A : We were talking about that just for spring feed. We 

 don't have any winter pasture. 



Q: Don't you let them out an hour or two in the middle 

 of the day? 



A: They will give more milk if kept in the barn in cold 

 weather. You let them out on an apparently nice day but with 

 a strong, cold wind blowing, and you will find there will be a 

 shrinkage in the flow of milk. 



O : I heard my neighbor telephoning yesterday to have the 

 cows put in and he told me today that they were short of milk. 



A : That is just what I am trying to tell you. 



I had a young man working for me this summer, it was ac- 

 tually hot up there and he would go out to work after breakfast 

 and put on leather gloves. Are your hands cold? I asked him, 

 but the fact was he did not want to soil them. T told him when 

 I went anywhere I considered it an honor to show hands that 

 labored. I recall one time when I was going to St. Louis, T 

 worked on the farm vmtil dark and walked down to the train and 

 I did not have time to get some money; and the next morning 

 when I reached St. Louis I walked into a bank and I asked the 

 teller: will you cash this check on the Home National Bank of 



