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have tried to improve my herd very much after the ideas 

 advanced by the speaker. Then came Prof. Sanborn, with 

 remarks just in Hne with the ideas which I have attempted to 

 ])ractice upon my own farm, the production not of the individual 

 animal alone but of the acres, the value that may be reaped from 

 the acres. Therefore, I have been very much interested. I 

 believe the ideas that have been expressed, if put into practice on 

 the farms of Maine, will place this State as one of the first 

 states in New England, or the East, as an agricultural state. 



C. E. Tripp. I have enjoyed very much the addresses which 

 have been given here this forenoon. Nearly all of them have 

 coincided with my experience. I was particularly interested in 

 the paper on the growing of corn, because I believe that the 

 raising of yellow corn means much to the farmers of Maine. 

 I believe it is possible for the farmers of this State to grow as 

 large crops of yellow corn as have been reported by the speaker 

 here this morning. In fact, I know it is, because I have grown 

 them myself. I know that it is possible, with proper cultivation, 

 for the farmers of ]\Iaine to raise loo bushels of shelled corn 

 to the acre, and I believe that when a farmer can do that it is 

 better and cheaper for him to do it than to buy his grain from 

 the West. 



My experience has taught me, in accordance with what the 

 speaker on the Breeding of Stock has said, that a herd of cows 

 can be brought up to a high standard, even if you start away 

 down, by using a pure bred sire. This is what the farmers who 

 are not prepared to purchase full blood dams should do. 

 Take the best cows that you have in your herd and by keeping 

 a pure bred sire at the head you can in a very few years obtain 

 a herd which will be nearly equal to a pure bred herd so far as 

 production is concerned. 



