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to press your farms for all their possibilities. You can raise 

 grain and sell it at a fine profit ; you can raise baby beef, when 

 you have mastered the modern methods of raising baby beef. 

 There is no product of the farm today that does not invite the 

 capital, and labor, and skill, and machinery of any great busi- 

 ness. Our land must be intelligently developed ; acreage will 

 not increase, Avhile population is increasing. High prices will 

 mean a higher type of agriculture and for a time we will 

 strike a new level. I do not know. I am sure, what there is 

 before us in agriculture, the possibilities are so great. It seems 

 to me that there is an era just opening to the farmers, such as 

 the world has never dreamed of, and opportunities that invite 

 the best talent we have. I can give no better advice to young 

 men than to look sharply into the advantages offered by agri- 

 culture. The sunrise of the future is the farm, and the sunset 

 is its obliteration, for the cities have their work to do and must 

 be fed. 



Now, I have been talking along, without any particular line 

 of thought, but if there is anyone here who has any question, I 

 should be glad to give him the benefit of my experience. 



Mr. Holston : What is the cause of the decrease in the 

 number of cows in New Hampshire? 



Prof. Sanborn : The same cause that extends all over New 

 England. Notwithstanding the effort of the Milk Producers' 

 Union to get an increase of price, there has never been a time 

 when a quart of milk has been made at so small an amount of 

 profit. Corn that I coukl buy for thirty cents is 47 cents ; all 

 your expenses are higher. Your labor is restless and uncertain 

 and, knowing its power, is not efficient. That is the reason ; the 

 decrease in the profit. 



Dr. Woods : Those figures on the wall have no relation with 

 this year ; they date back more than eighteen months and have 

 nothing to do with the present prices. 



Prof. Sanborn : I understand that ; but they have been the 

 conditions, and will be. 



Dr. Woods: I wonder if the thought could possibly have 

 been an effort to get rid of poor stock and if now we have a 

 survival of better cattle? 



