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SPECIAL DAIRY :\IEETING AT PRESQUE ISLE, 



OCTOBER 22 AND 23, 1903. 



At the request of the State Dairymen's Association a two-days' 

 meeting devoted to the subject of dairying was held at Presque 

 Isle on October 22 and 23, for the benefit of the people in this 

 section of the State. While this is not a special dairy section, 

 we were much pleased at the interest manifested, and the large 

 display of butter and cheese that was made. The judges from 

 A'ermont and Massachusetts, who scored the dairy products, 

 were surprised at the high standard of excellency found. A few 

 of the addresses delivered at this meeting are presented in the 

 following pages. The remainder we are unable to print, for lack 

 of space, but they will be found in the annual report of the Maine 

 Dairymen's Association for 1903. 



HANDLING THE DAIRY FOR PROFIT. 



By S. C. Thompson_, Winterport. 



I am well aware that you farmers of Aroostook county are 

 making a great success at raising potatoes, that this year is per- 

 haps the greatest success of all, surely so far as yield is con- 

 cerned, that your land is fertile and valuable and that you are 

 prospering financially. You are raising large quantities of clover, 

 and it is a crop on which you can rely from year to year, and is 

 one of the best feeds for the dairy cow, carrying a large percent- 

 age of protein which is so necessary in the production of milk ; 

 and you are selling large quantities of timothy at from eight to 

 ten dollars per ton, with the average, I am told, at the lower fig- 

 ure. We find by experiments that if we go into the market to 

 replace the fertilizer sold in one ton of hay it will cost us more 

 than seven dollars. For every ton of hay sold for eight dollars 

 we are selling seven dollars worth of fertilizer. W'e are getting 

 but one dollar a ton for our labor of harvesting, pressing and 

 marketing. In contrast I want to call your attention to work 



