PROFITS OF PRIVATE DAIRYING. ^^4]^ 



AFTERNOON. 



Sec. Gilbert. In opening this afternoon, I simply wish to call 

 attention to the relation of the subject assigned for the afternoon to 

 the lesson which I attempted to draw this forenoon. You will bear in 

 mind that dairying is a branch of stock husbandry. In prosecuting 

 dairAing we do it for the purpose of realizing our profits through 

 dair^' products. "We would urge it upon the attention of the farmers 

 from two stand-points ; the one was indicated by the character of 

 the exercises this forenoon, and that is its relation to the fertilitj- of 

 the soil. No branch of stock husbandry among us so fully maintains 

 the fertilit}' of the soil as this one of dairying. That, of course, is 

 an important feature, and one worthy of being held in mind at all 

 times ; but while we are guarding the fertility of the soil there is 

 another matter that we have to guard, and that is the profits. We 

 cannot deposit all the products of our efforts in the soil ; we must 

 look out for the money returns also. Here again we hope the 

 investigations of the afternoon will commend this subject of dairying 

 to you from the stand-point of profitable returns in money, and that 

 the two features taken together will give the subject a very favorable 

 appearance. 



PROFITS OF PRIVATE DAIRYING. 

 By J. K. Hammond, Member from Oxford County. 



I feel some hesitation in presenting to 3'ou the statements, which . 

 I hold in my hand, from our Oxford county dairymen, when I 

 consider how much more favorabl}' located for that business you 

 are than we. What we lack in Oxford count}^ 3'ou have here, a 

 home market for all the products j'ou have to dispose of. Our 

 Oxford count}- dairymen are obliged to send most of their products . 

 to Boston to some commission house, paying commissions and . 

 freight ; while those in this section find a market in the cities and 

 large towns which lie near at hand. However, I will give a few 

 statements which I have received from our dair3'men in Oxford 

 county, in the towns of Hebron, Norway and Paris. 



