DAIRY MEETING. II9 



Dairying is the key note to the future prosperity and develop- 

 ment of the State of Maine. Do we fully realize the import- 

 ance and magnitude of the dairy industry to the State of Elaine? 

 Are we aware that the most careful estimates of our dairy prod- 

 ucts this year will reach the grand total of $12,000,000? I am 

 no prophet, but I predict that we are on the eve of great agri- 

 cultural prosperity. Already the tide of emigration is turning 

 from the ^Middle and Western States to the State of Maine. 

 Our cheap farms are attracting men here and hundreds of our 

 farms have been sold, and within the next year hundreds more 

 will be sold if our dairy and fruit interests are represented at 

 St. Louis as they ought to be. Our forests are rapidly disap- 

 pearing and being ground into pulp wood. Let the dairyman 

 and the cow follow the axe and develop our great northern 

 borders. 



Education should be the watchword of the day. While our 

 neighbors just over the line in Xew Brunswick are making the 

 finest butter in the world let Maine take no back seat, and let us 

 not be satisfied until we have reached the score of 100 points. 

 We can accomplish this and we will if the dairymen of Maine 

 will continue to work together to improve the quality of our 

 butter. 



