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good care of your tools, returned them to their place and gen- 

 erally carried out my instructions to the most minute detail. 

 Now, that is the sort of man that I want, and if you will 

 leave the farm and come into office, you shall have a posi- 

 tion." I, told him that i had made different arrangements 

 and that T belonged to another party. "Well," he says, ''I 

 know you are a Shanghai, but I want you to come anyhow." 

 So I told him I would think it over and call on him the next 

 week. When I returned I told him that if he could wait 

 a few weeks until I could arrange matters, I would come. So 

 I went into that office and served there for seventeen years — 

 sixteen years and ten months without moving from the farm, 

 driving in mornings and out evenings, and if the team was 

 busy walking in and out. The last Governor that I served 

 under was our Governor Hoard. I served during his first 

 term and just before election, when he was a candidate for 

 the second term, I moved into the city, not because I was 

 tired of the farm, but because the children had grown up so 

 that they needed High School facilities. The next weelv 

 after I moved in election came and Hoard was defeated by 

 many thousands, the children had commenced going to school 

 and one evening I left the Governor's office for good, asking 

 myself the question, "What are you going to do now?" By 

 the next morning I had made up m^^ mind, and I went to the 

 University to attend the first dairy school that had ever been 

 established in America. Mr. Gurler, your townsman, was 

 the instructor. I attended the school that winter, and then 

 I was engaged for Minnesota, and I have been in the work 

 ever since; so you will, see that I have brought to you the 

 practical experience of many years. 



When I first went to Minnesota, there were only a few 

 animals on the farm, a.nd we at, once proceeded to build up a 

 dairy herd. We purchased cows wherever we could get them; 

 of various breeds, grades and ages, in order to do experi- 

 mental work with them. The wonderful Babcock test had 

 been invented — by the w^ay one of the greatest strides in 

 dairying that has been made during the century. After the 

 herd was established, we weighed every milking from every 

 cow and made a record of it; we tested every milking; we also 



