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the dairy needs. These farms especially will become benefited 

 and increased in value by the cheese factory. So that soon, by 

 increasing his hay crop and his stock of cows, the farmer must add 

 to his barn room, and the old sheds will give place to new and 

 larger ones, and then the old house will be repaired, or a new one 

 built in its stead. With increased income/ come increased im- 

 provements of the land and facilities for working it. The stones 

 and rocks will be removed from the mowings and the ground pre- 

 pared for the mowing machine ; and the fields themselves will 

 wear a new look. And the boj's will come to love the place which 

 heretofore has been associated in their minds with scanty fare and 

 drudgery and exceeding hardship. The home will become more 

 attractive with the increase of comforts and refinements ; and thus 

 the amount of human happiness as well as wealth will be in- 

 creased. 



This is the result of lightening the burden of toil by as- 

 sociated capital. And the wealth of the town itself will be in- 

 creased. Every stump that you pull, every rock that you remove, 

 every drain that you lay, every swamp that j-'ou clear up, adds to 

 the wealth of the town. With improvement of farms and of homes 

 will inevitably come improvement in schools and advancement in 

 all public interests. As menjjecorae cultivated and refined they 

 become magnanimous and public spirited. Churches grow, and 

 immorality and irreligion diminish ; men become better neighbors, 

 better citizens and better men. Men that are naturally averse to 

 efibrt and indiff'erent to the spirit of improvement and progress, 

 are incited to effort and industry by the zeal and prosperity of 

 their neighbors ; a healthy spirit of emulation awakens them. 

 Neighbor A will not be outdone by neighbor B.; his stock shall 

 look as well ; the yield of his dairy shall be as large ; his veal 

 shall sell as high, and his pigs shall be as large and as fat. This 

 spirit of emulation is wealth ; the want of it is poverty. Now I 

 say, associated dairying places all on an equal footing ; the small 

 farmer can compete with the larger one as far as the quality of his 

 cheese, or the quantity per cow are concerned. All this competi- 

 tion results in increased effort and consequently increased wealth 

 to the individual farmer and to the community. 



These are some of the arguments for, and the advantages of, the 

 system of associated dairying. Let me briefly recapitulate. The 

 argument for the cheese factory is this : 



That it is in keeping with nearly all other branches of business 



