l6 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



that any of the Orono professors would gladly welcome the 

 young ladies of Maine for similar instruction. Miss Morse has 

 picked up quite a number of pennies testing milk in her vicinity, 

 and has helped many farmers to learn the capabilities of their 

 several cows. Undoubtedly several Randolph bovines have felt 

 the butcher's axe as a result of her verdicts ; and more important, 

 but a logical result, undoubtedly some Randolph savings bank 

 accounts are the fatter because of their death. 



If you cannot get the samples tested in your vicinity send them 

 to Orono. Many hundreds of samples of milk and cream are 

 sent to the Vermont Station yearly for analysis, a good many of 

 them coming from farmers who are looking up the merits of their 

 cows, islot as many are sent as should be sent. The dairyman 

 who is dissatisfied with his creamery returns is far more apt to 

 curse the creamery man than to look at home in his. own herd for 

 the source of the trouble. The Biblical adage touching the mote 

 and the beam obtains here with full force. 



One of my former associates on the Vermont Board of 

 Agriculture, driving by a large cotton cloth mill one day 

 observed machinery being removed. Reining in his horse he 

 questioned the superintendent: "What are you doing? Are 

 you not taking out machinery which I saw go in there less than 

 three years ago? Is it worn out?" The man replied, "It is 

 doing good work yet, but we are taking it out and putting in 

 new machinery, costing us heavily, because these new machines, 

 invented and perfected during the last few years, will enable us 

 to reduce the cost of manufacture a few hundredths of a cent a 

 yard. We cannot compete in the manufacture of cloth with our 

 competitors using better machinery." 



Too many farmers are manufacturing butter or cream with 

 out of date or imperfect cow machines. Since such ready means 

 are at hand for detecting these animals, it seems to me that it is 

 worth while to weed them out. 



I heard a man say only a few days ago that he believed he 

 should breed Durhams rather than Jerseys, because when he was 

 through with them they would sell for more for beef. I believe 

 he was penny wise and pound foolish. Take our Jersey grade 

 cow Eva, making 533 pounds of butter last year. She will be 

 good for little for beef when we are done with her. When doing 

 her best she looks like a hat rack. But last year she made over 



