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Show in com Fffl Ey Feter Radford Lecturer National Farmers' Union The farmer gets more out of the fair than anyone else. The fair to a city man is an entertainment; to a farmer it is education. Let us take a stroll through the fair grounds and linger a moment at a few of the points I of greatest interest. We will first visit the mechanical department and hold communion with the world's greatest thinkers. You are now attending a congress of the mental giants in mechanical science sci-ence of all ages. They are addressing you in tongues of iron and steel and in language mute and powerful tell an eloquent story of the world's progress. The inventive geniuses are the most valuable farm hands we have and they perform an enduring service to mankind. We can all help others for a brief period while we live, but it takes a mastei mind to tower into the realm of science and light a torch of progress that will illuminate the pathway path-way of civilization for future generations. genera-tions. The men who gave us the sickle, the binder, the cotton gin and hundreds of oth valuable inventions work in every fh Id on earth and will continue their l.Voors as long as tinie. Their bright intellects have conquered death and they will live and serve mankind on and on forever, without money and without price. They' have Bhown us how grand and noble it is to work for others; they have also taught us lessons in economy and efficiency, effi-ciency, how to make one hour do the work of two or more; have lengthened length-ened our lives, multiplied our opportunities and taken toil off the back of humanity. They are the most practical men the world ever produced. Their inventions in-ventions have stood the acid test of utility and efficiency. Like all useful men, they do not seek publicity, yet millions of machines sing their praises from every harvest field on earth and as many plows turn the soil in mute applause of their marvelous achievements. |