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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



It is not easy to labor, but to labor and to wait is harder still. The 

 idle are the troublesome element in school and state. The virtue of pa- 

 tience is also learned. For we know the "acorn does not become an oak 

 in a day. The refined scholar is the raw recuit of yesterday; there is al- 

 ways months between the seed time and the harvest." 



It is here we are educated to love to work. I could have said learn 

 how, but to love work, and take real delight — not half-hearted. I have 

 seen men plow as if it were a real punishment; also women cook as if 

 it were a real buiden. Such persons leave all undone that they can, and 

 dislike the farm and almost everything else. 



"We also know the farm gives a strong body, good health, the foun- 

 dation, open air and sun. No need of gymnasium, climbing of hills and 

 over fences, riding of horses; every muscle has full play. This beats all 

 the gymnasiums from Mexico to Canada. No foot ball needed with 

 broken limbs or crushed heads. God gives us a good form, strong arms, 

 he did not give them to us to beat ir up in pugilistic manner unless nec- 

 essary in war. We only have one soul. We are to take care of this phy- 

 sical body, keep it in good shape, not ruin it by vice or by things we 

 could do without, but to keep it as a temple, and when the time comes to 

 return it over in good condition. 



I thank God, after I spent a while in that rushing Chicago, with its 

 pent up flats (as well as fine houses), that I could go to the orchard and 

 stand in the June sun amid the corn and drink its freedom from so-called 

 society, here to commune with God ;n the quiet hour. 



if we take the opportunities the farm offers we will be content. 



I like Whitcomb Riley's, "Thoughts for the Discouraged Farmer." 

 Does the meadow lark complain, as he swims high and dry 

 Thro' the waves of the wind and the blue of the sky? 

 Does the quail set up and whistle in a disappointed way, 

 Or hang his head in silence and sorrow all the day? 

 Is the chipmunck's health a failure? 

 Does he walk or does he run? 



