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other kinds of machinery. The header came and my son Joseph bought 

 one of them and he has got one now. 



Well now, in relation to one thing, yon have all talked of the best 

 methods to grow grain. Not one of you has mentioned one thing — 

 Lucerne. Lucerne is a benefit to the land. I have sunk down as much 

 as nine feet and found Lucerne roots, and the roots will rot and will be 

 full of holes, and the sun will draw the moisture from the ground to the 

 top of the land. (Applause.) And I didn't state, there are articles from 

 the garden, and different things on the tables there. I grew cauliflowers 

 in the garden, one weighed 14 pounds 8 ounces, and there were two alike 

 which we had yonder at the time, and the other cauliflower weighed lack- 

 ing two or three ounces of fourteen pounds. I got a medal there and 

 diploma — a medal for those things, and onions and other things I had 

 there at the fair. And Mr. Sanborn, principal of the Agricultural College, 

 he took that big cauliflower to the State Fair, and then between Christmas 

 and New Years he sent his son to my house and he dined with me. He 

 got a portion of my stuff, everything I had. and he shipped it right 

 to Chicago to the Fair. Well, I got a grand diploma — medal worth a 

 hundred dollars — golden and silver — and ' I have them there in my house 

 now. (Applause.) 



Well, my brothers and fellow workers on the earth, go on, and the 

 Lord will bless you. 



I see Brother Farrell is here today. I say that a man that grows 20,- 



000 bushels of grain is a Joseph in Egypt. And even President Roosevelt 

 has put in his message quite a stress on the people to grow wheat. 

 Is it not the life of the world? Well, Joseph, when he went to Egypt, 

 what did he get from the King of Egypt — Pharaoh? He got a gold chain. 



1 tell you. Brother Farrell, for the amount of grain you grow you ought 

 to have a diamond ring with a gold chain. (Applause.) 



You go on, my fellow men, and improve all you can in raising wheat 

 and everything else that is for the benefit of man. As one man here 

 talked in relation to how lazy man is, good for nothing, only to devour 

 what a laboring man has labored to raise. (Long applause.) 



CHAIRMAN DERN: I want to announce that the Committee on 

 Resolutions will meet at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. If anyone here 

 desires to offer any resolutions they will do so now, so that they can be 

 considered by the committee in the morning. 



This will conclude our regular program for this afternoon. A motion 

 to adjourn will be in order. 



On motion duly seconded the Congress adjourned to meet at ten 

 o'clock tomorrow morning. 



