DAIRY AND SEED IMPROVEMENT MEETINGS. I97 



to show that the growing of Hve stock is a good profitable 

 investment in the state of Maine today. 



The problem that confronts us at the present time, is how 

 to get the money that rightfully belongs in the state of Maine 

 back into the hands of good, live young men, and set it to work 

 on some of our Maine farms; producing something that the 

 markets are calling for, and for which they are willing to pay 

 a price that will ensure a good profit. 



We dairymen, and the farmers of the state as a whole, re- 

 gardless of whether they are potato growers, fruit growers or 

 breeders of live stock, owe it to ourselves and our state to so 

 educate ourselves and our sons that we can manage our busi- 

 ness in such a way that at the end of the year we can stand 

 up and say, from that business we can declare a dividend ; and 

 by so doing we have not only been helped as individuals, but 

 we have added to the wealth of our state and have helped to 

 make it a brighter, happier, better state in which to live. 



We have our College of Agriculture, with able men at the 

 head of the dififerent departments, all working to educate and 

 improve those who come within their reach. The extension 

 work which is being carried on in different sections of the 

 state, by the College of Agriculture, through practical farm 

 demonstration work, along dift'erent branches of farming, is 

 bound to be one of the greatest helps that the farmers of Maine 

 have ever had. We have our Department of Agriculture, 

 headed by a Commissioner who is not only able but anxious to 

 do all in his power to build up the agricultural interests of the 

 state. All this help is for the benefit of the farmers of Maine. 

 Many secondary schools are teaching agriculture, and by so 

 doing are awakening a desire for more agricultural knowledge 

 in the minds of our boys and girls in the state of Maine. With 

 all the assistance we have in sight at this time, there never was 

 so favorable an outlook for the farmers of Maine, especially 

 for the breeders of live stock, as there is at the present time. 



And now. Brother Dairymen, when we separate to go to our 

 homes, let us have faith and confidence in our business and a 

 determination to talk dairying, live dairying, and work to pro- 

 mote dairying and the breeding of live stock until Maine is 

 the leading dairy state in the country. 



