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feed ten pounds of good corn nioal that would sustain a man a. 

 week to a hog, and take in return one pound of bone, muscle and 

 fat which will not support him well a single day. But that da^- has 

 not arrived. We are now wishing to know how we can remain in 

 New England on the farms where we were born, and among asso- 

 ciations that are dear to us, and obtain a good comfortable living 

 and maintain a respectable position in societj-. To do this we must 

 have money, and the main question is how to get it. Here in Milo 

 you have put capital into a cheese factory. Facts have been pro- 

 duced here to-day showing that there is some money in cheese 

 making l)y such systems as you have followed. The lecturer from 

 Aroostook county has given 3'ou figures proving it a better business, 

 as carried on there. Now whicli will you do, move to Aroostook, 

 or stay where you ai'e ? 



A part of the business there is clearing and fencing new land. 

 Yours is already cleared and fenced. A part of the work of the 

 new settler is to build a house, a barn, and dig a well. You have 

 them all. A part of the income from farms in a new country goes 

 for building churches, school houses, roads and bridges. These 

 3'ou have in abundance, all built and paid for. With all these 

 advantages in your favor, can you not make as large a profit from 

 your lands here, as you could from the new lands of Aroostook 

 county, or the prairies of the West? I believe you can, but 3'ou 

 must Avork them more ; must make a more full use of the capital 

 you have invested. By adopting so much of the system I have 

 described as may seem adapted to your wants or locality, you will 

 be able to keep your land in almost constant use. The successful 

 merchant or manufacturer aims to turn his capital often, and by so 

 doing, to work on small margins. A profit of two per cent, a month, 

 is more than four times better than a profit of six per cent, a year. 

 Very few of the crops, I have named, require much over two months 

 for their growth. Our single crop of hay, which is grown on so 

 many thousands of acres here in New England, grows in less than 

 three months, and a rowen crop, when we get one, seldom requires 

 more than sixty days for its maturity. But there are twelve months 

 in the year, and if we have interest to pay on a mortgage, it is 

 reckoned for the whole 365 days. So our taxes and insurance are 

 paid for the whole year. Can we aflTord to do business in that way ? 

 If so, can we not better afford to use our capital more of the 

 time? I believe we can. I believe after a crop of potatoes has 



