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dairy cattle, and better prices for their crops which can be fed 

 to their live-stock at that season of the year. Winter dairying 

 enables the farmer to employ the best kind of labor because he 

 gives steady employment throughout the entire year. Short 

 time positions do not attract the best kind of labor. When bus- 

 iness methods are applied to dairying, profits will be earned and 

 the farmer will be enthused and benefited. 



Before I close I want to say a word of encouragement to 

 the 3^oung men and women who are looking for a higher edu- 

 cation, and who do not have sufficient funds to assist them, or 

 who do not have parents able to pay for their college educa- 

 tion. There is an opportunity for everyone to get a college ed- 

 ucation if you so desire. I am not talking from theory hwtl 

 from practical experience. I was reared in the hills of Western 

 Wisconsin and I am very modest to tell you that 1 am the thir- 

 teenth member in my father's family of sixteen. You can see 

 what chance I had for a college education. I was very unfor- 

 tunate to be turned out into the world at the age of ten, but 

 with the encouragement I received from my father and the 

 older members of my family, ever since ten years of age I have 

 been self supporting. When I became of age I desired a college 

 education, so I took what Httle money I had, the sum total of 

 $45.00, and started for Madison, Wisconsin, to get a four 

 years' training in the science of agriculture. Three weeks after 

 I was there I was broke and sick abed, but I was not discourag- 

 ed because I knew many young men who were in the same pre- 

 dicament as myself and they were partially or wholly self sup- 

 porting. I succeeded at working at odd jobs on the college farm 

 and in the city of Madison, and when I graduated I had money 

 on deposit in a city bank. I am talking very plain, but I hope it 

 will give you young men encouragement so that if you desire a 

 college education, you can do what thousands of other boys 

 are doing every year in the colleges of this country, working 

 their way through college. 



The average person gets a great deal more out of the 

 people he meets than he does out of the books he reads. W'e 

 learn that this is one of the greatest educational features we 



