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COWS as I have seen in the State of Maine for a year, and 

 everything was just as clean as this room, only the floor was 

 not carpeted. Everything was up-to-date and all right. That 

 man is doing business just the way that these people here have 

 instructed him to do it. He is living right up to the teachings 

 of the professors. I wish more of our farmers were practicing 

 those methods, 



A. W. GiLMAN. I do not think I can add one word to what 

 has been said here. I have never attended a State Dairy Con- 

 ference where I have been so much interested from the moment 

 I came into the room until the close of the meeting, as I have at 

 this one. I am satisfied beyond a doubt that Brother McKeen 

 was right when he said we certainly were advancing along this 

 line. I have been listening with a great deal of interest to what 

 Brother Deering has said on tuberculosis, and this report is 

 correct. We certainly are ahead of any other state in New 

 England, as far as that goes. The most pleasing part of what 

 he said was that where they tested cows last year and removed 

 the diseased ones, and then went over the same ground this 

 year, they found almost perfect herds. 



I trust the farmers and dairymen at this Conference when 

 they go home will resolve to do better work along the line of 

 dairying than they have ever done before. There have been a 

 good many things said and they are worth to us just what we 

 take home with us and apply individually to our business. The 

 man who gets the most out of the Conference is the man who, 

 when he goes home, will resolve within himself that he is going 

 to do better work in dairy lines, give his cow better feed and 

 better care. 



