REPORT OF TI-IE STATE DAIRY INSTRUCTOR. 2/ 



about their work. Some of the buildings have been built for 

 sometime and never were of the most approved model, but I 

 should have considered myself suffering from a surfeit of good 

 dinner and a lack of sawing wood, had I recommended their 

 destruction without an adec[uate compensation from some 

 source, being returned. 



At several places that I called during the rush hours, things 

 did not look exactly as they should. I did not make my iden- 

 tity known, but sometime afterward would call and see them 

 clean up at night for the beginning of the next day. These 

 places were all right in the morning to begin with and I was 

 unable to see how they could improve conditions during their 

 rush hours and still maintain a working basis. 



breeders' meetings. 

 I visited each of the three Holstein Breeders' Associations 

 and the Aroostook Jersey Breeders' Association. At these 

 meetings I found some very intelligent men working seriously 

 on breeding problems, but the continual cry came to me from 

 each of them, "How can we sell our surplus stock for big 

 money?" It is needless to say that I did not consider this any 

 part of the work which devolved upon me from my position as 

 a state officer except indirectly ; that is, — as we want to see all 

 farmers, whether thoroughbred breeders or not, prosper. The 

 fact is, when cows are dropping off at more than 5,000 a year, 

 it immediately becomes evident that more people are selling 

 than buying, whereas if the reverse were true and more people 

 were buying than selling a stronger market is at once estab- 

 lished for all grades, and when the condition becomes acute 

 thoroughbred stock of high quality brings fancy prices readily. 

 And yet the man who raises fancy stock to prosper must add 

 to his ability as a good breeder, that other quality fully as rare, 

 good salesmanship, a quality that is recognized and paid high 

 prices for in all commercial lines. 



FAIRS. 

 In this connection I may as well say that I visited the large 

 fairs at Lewiston and Waterville and the county fairs of 



