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given us. In all my connections with the ^^laine Dairymen's 

 Association, although we have held the State Dairy Conference 

 in some of the largest cities of this State, in no single instance 

 have the people by their numbers given us such a royal recep- 

 tion as we have had here this evening. I am exceedingly 

 pleased to know that we have with us, and that he has been able 

 to reply to this address of welcome, a man for whom I have 

 great respect, a man who has done more to develop the dairy 

 interests of this State than any other man. 



WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9. 



WHAT OF THE CORN CROP OF MAINE AND 

 HOW TO IMPRO\'E IT. 



By Dr. G. AI. Twitchell, Auburn, ^le. 



It is a familiar phrase running through all agricultural litera- 

 ture that success in agriculture rests upon successful stock 

 husbandry, yet the lesson of the century is so imperfectly 

 accepted and appreciated that there is today urgent need of its 

 being emphasized over and over again. At the same time we 

 must not overlook the fact that success in stock husbandry rests 

 upon the ability of the individual owner to produce in largest 

 measure the feed stuff for his animals, having always in mind 

 the maximum growth or product and the minimum of cost or 

 waste to the farm. The day has come when we must accept as 

 sound doctrine that the one thing to be sought is reduced cost 

 of production rather than a higher price for our products. 

 Granting that this is not an attractive field for speculation, yet 

 upon this rock must the work of future years be grounded, and 

 'to its importance individual attention directed. Detracting 

 nothing from the necessity for co-operation in disposal of farm 

 products and the increased benefits sure to follow any well 

 organized, consecutive movement, the lesson still remains, and 

 will remain, that he only who critically counts the cost of pro- 

 duction is sure of standing ground in the financial field. The 

 greatest check upon Maine farm development has been the 

 assumption on the part of so many that feeding stuff could be 



