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farmers of any country. In regard to the causes of the con- 

 test in growing grain, and increasing the product of the farm, 

 of course, the future can only speak, but I do want to say to 

 you, farmers, that it is not simply an advertising dodge. It is 

 something that is, in my judgment, very greatly for the benefit 

 of farmers everywhere. It is something that is intended to 

 help not only the farmers of New England, but the farmers all 

 over the United States. 



I have been announced to talk to you on the question of 

 feeding live stock, — a great, wide question, like the question 

 that I attempted to speak upon yesterday. I can see, brethren, 

 as you cannot, perhaps, some difficulties with the discussion of 

 this question before an audience of Connecticut farmers. I 

 put the question to several, — are any live stock fattened in 

 Connecticut ? And generally the answer came in the negative. 

 I did hear about one or two that attempted to fatten live stock 

 in a somewhat extensive w'ay, but I have yet to meet the first 

 man who is fattening live stock upon his farm in the sense in 

 which live stock is fattened upon the farms of the western 

 country. I know, of course, that my subject does not confine 

 me to the question of fattening live stock, because it is a ques- 

 tion which involves not only the fattening of live stock but the 

 feeding of dairy animals and the feeding of all kinds of farm 

 stock. I put this question to the same men. I said, " Do 

 the farmers in Connecticut grow their own meat for their 

 tables ? " but, farmers, they told me " No." I asked, " Do the 

 farmers grow their own pork for their own tables?" and, 

 farmers, they told me " No." I w^onder why Connecticut 

 farmers do not grow their own beef, and do not grow their 

 own pork, for I do not need to tell you, farmers, that every 

 dollar kept upon the farm in that w-ay is a dollar saved. I am 

 not here on this platform to tell you that you cannot bring in 

 cattle from the west and fatten them and sell them in the 

 market here and make them pay you. I am not here to tell 

 you that. I am here, however, to tell you that I do not see 

 why you should do that ; that it is my profound judgment that 

 you can grow your own beef, that you can grow your own 

 pork, and you can do it just as well, and, in fact, you can grow 

 better beef and better pork than you can buy. You can do it 

 cheaper than you can do it by getting it from elsewhere to be- 



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