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hipped, deep clicsted, fine headed, sliort and slender horned, sh'm 

 necked, soft and thin and yellow skinned, broad and deep nddered, 

 and GENTLE, so that your maid can help milk them ; yes, they will 

 cost something. But then, they will pay for themselves the first 

 year if you manage well ; but you had better take that brick out 

 of your hat, and that cigar out of your mouth, and kill that dog, 

 and raise a good calf in his place, and put a birch stick in plain 

 sight to use on your boy, or whoever drives your cows to and 

 from the pasture, if he strikes a cow or if he clubs or stones one, 

 or if he hurries them to and from the pasture. And have your 

 night pasture handy by, rich and sweet, and your ample piece of 

 corn fodder, against the dry time — the Evergreen Sweet Corn is 

 the best — an acre at least for every eight or ten cows, and then 

 with sweet tin pails and sweet cans, and a sweet breath and sweet 

 temper, which will sweeten all things, and which is very needful 

 in dairying, you'll pay for your cows, you'll pay for your farm, 

 you'll buy on new fields and new pastures. Sam, who had pur- 

 posed to go west, will stay at home to help you ; Jim, who has 

 gone west, will come back and settle by your side, to his mother's 

 joy, for she doted on Jim. You'll have your span of bays, not to 

 idle on the park, but to do your work ; and you'll want y.our car- 

 riage to take your wife and children to meeting with you, and to 

 drive them to the fair. And you will have money in your pocket, 

 and money in the bank, and some invested in charity as well as in 

 bonds. 



Farmers of Piscataquis and of Maine ! I leave this important 

 subject, thus imperfectly presented, with you. You may deem me 

 an enthusiast on this subject, but I am indeed far from it. I believe, 

 with the aid of the system of associated dairying, the best and 

 most successful farmers among you will be benefited, while to the 

 smaller and less successful farmers it will be a relief and a help 

 which we cannot overstate. 



But what is the use ? The verdict against Ephraim has been in 

 my thoughts : "He is joined to his idols, let him alone." Six con- 

 tiguous farms up in Sangerville, six jolly farmers all in a row, keep 

 eighteen cows and twenty-one horses. And those are splendid 

 dairy farms. And that isn't so bad a case as that of the honored 

 and Hon. President of our Agricultural Society — this is not a 

 family secret, although I had it from his wife. He keeps one cow 

 and six of the horse kind. I submit, if that isn't a bad example 

 for the president of our agricultural society to set ; and I submit 



