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as to make the cost as low as possible. It would do no harm if 

 there was something made from doing it, for the growers would 

 be the company and the profit would go to them instead of to 

 the man who now makes or furnishes the barrels. 



There are still other advantages from this way of handling 

 and selling the fruit. The situation, however, calls for serious 

 and active thought, if apple growing in the future is to give the 

 farmers the profit they deserve from their industry. The situa- 

 tion is before us, and among the other plans that may be 

 presented we commend the local co-operative storage by the 

 growers themselves. In this way they will offer the market the 

 best there is available; they will offer it when it is ready for 

 the market ; they will offer it in the most attractive form. Last, 

 but by no means least, it will drive inferior JMaine fruit out of 

 the markets, because all the time the best will be there to take 

 its place. 



METHOD AND COST OF RAISING THE DAIRY 



CALF. 

 By Professor J. AI. Trueman, Storrs, Conn. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



For .a number of years I have travelled across your State to 

 visit my old home in New Brunswick, but this is the first time 

 I have had the pleasure of attending one of your Institutes and 

 speaking to a Maine audience. I feel at home here, and am 

 pleased to be here, because your soil and climate and your type 

 of agriculture are similar to those of New Brunswick with which 

 I was familiar as a boy and as a young man. 



I am to discuss with you today the rearing of the dairy calf, 

 from birth to maturity. Every year the need for good dairy 

 cows is becoming more imperative. There was a time when it 

 was possible to buy cows at a moderate price, but of late years 

 the price has steadily increased until it is difficult to buy a first- 

 class cow. Under these conditions the most wide-awake dairy- 

 men have found it pays them best to raise the heifer calves and 

 keep up their herds by their own breeding. Having decided on 

 this method of keeping up the herd it becomes extremely impor- 



