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The prize winning herd of Jerseys bred and owned by S. M. 

 King of South Paris, and those of your Secretary at Cumberland 

 Centre afford abundant evidence that you, as Maine dairymen, 

 are not lacking in object lessons. It required ambition, study 

 and hard work to get these herds together and bring them to this 

 present standard of excellence. It is the result of a careful and 

 intelligent plan, on the part of each individual owner and breeder. 

 Not one of those gentlemen are in the business for their health, 

 they are in it because they love their work and because they see 

 in it the source 'of a substantial and permanent income, and I 

 assure you, dairymen of Maine, if these and other dairymen could 

 achieve such results with the markets in the unsatisfactory con- 

 ditions which have characterized them during the last ten or 

 fifteen years, then with these attainments as your examples 

 and with your University at Orono as a guide and teacher, there 

 is little you may not hope to accomplish if you continue to study, 

 and work. 



