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be an infant in production ; it grows to be a bigger infant, and requires more 

 care all the time. It is like some of our calves that grow and grow until 

 they get bigger than the mother cow, and can lift her off her feet in draw- 

 ing the sustenance. Pretty quick we put it onto two cows, and its necessi- 

 ties become more and more increasing, until it can lift two cows, and that is 

 how these infant industries hold on and grow. 



After a while, however, the idea was conceived that these infants must 

 have nurses, and who are the nurses V Why, simply an excuse for continu- 

 ing this state of things, so they make the workingmen of this country the 

 nurses of this infant. As an apology for continuing this state of things they 

 put this calf out of sight, and direct attention entirely to the nurses. I 

 think we ought to be getting past these things. I think the workmen of this 

 country should be working for themselves, and not for this old infant. 



This is too large a subject to enter into at this time ; furthermore, from 

 the nature of the subject it is necessary to stop somewhere, and it shall be 

 right here. 



Toast—' • Lawyers as Milking Machines. ' ' 



Eesponse, I. V. Randall. 



Toast—" From Physic to Farming." 



Response, Dr. Joseph Tefft. 



Ladies and Gentlemen : I can hardly see what this toast means, unless it 

 is insinuated that I have stopped the practice of medicine and gone to farm- 

 ing. One thing is certain, so long as I have quit that practice I certainly 

 cannot kill anybody with my farm. I have my farm, and my milk is all taken 

 to the condensing factory in Elgin. I practiced medicine in this country for 

 over forty years before I left it, and quit when my health failed, and since 

 then have looked after my farm. 



Toast—" A Green Mountain Peak, Peeking out West." 



Response, L. B. Hibbard. 



I have been in this town about fifty hours, according to my calculation 

 and have already been badly treated. I have been twitted in public right 

 here about the size of my nose. I am like the man who said, " I can stand 

 it to have people tell lies about me, but when they come to tell the truth, it 

 is more than I can bear." I have been called upon to say something about 

 Vermont. Vermont was an old settled State when this country was a wil- 

 derness, out herein the beautiful, pellucid Chicago river poor the low Indian 

 was dipping his oar, and where the south side is now, the Indian boys were 

 playing. Vermont has about 335,000 inhabitants, about the same as DeKalb, 

 but there are about 200,000 of the sons and daughters of Vermont scattered 

 over the west. They have got some queer notions down there. There are a 

 great many farmers down there that don't believe you can make butter by 

 level farming. That your cow can't give milk unless she stands on a farm 

 that stands up at an angle of forty-five degrees. 



Toast—" The Dairy Maid." 



Response, O. S. Cohoon. 



The. Dairy Maid. Formerly the dairy maid was a young miss of sweet 

 sixteen or more, or a young wife, or a matron, who went to milk old Brindle, 

 Daisy and Gyp, with— with a will and a purpose ; with a milk pail on her 

 head and two pails of nicely fixed up feed in either hand, singing a dairy 



