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in the State House. He must be a man who is thoroughly 

 posted and competent to impart instruction to our dairymen. 

 He should assist in institute work, and should hold dairy schools 

 for brief terms in different sections of our State, and give instruc- 

 tion from the feed to the marketing, in the production of pure 

 milk and cream and the manufacture of choice butter such as 

 you see here today, butter that will score from 90 to 100 points. 

 Who doubts that this would be the means of increasing the price 

 of our butter from one to two cents per pound? As you will 

 readily see, every cent we raise the price of our butter per pound 

 means $200,000, two cents per pound means $400,000 to the 

 dairymen of Maine. How long would it take to pay for this 

 instruction ? This amount of money in clean cash put into the 

 hands of our farmers would give new life to the agriculture of 

 Maine, and our State would soon become one of the leading dairy 

 states of this country. I beg your consideration of this important 

 problem. 



In view of the recent outbreak of the dreaded foot and mouth 

 disease in Massachusetts, it gives me great satisfaction to be able 

 to state that so far Maine is free and I would urge that watchful- 

 ness on the part of every dairyman which will protect our State. 

 Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and eternal watchfulness 

 and enterprise are the price of progress. 



