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8. In addition we may mention a wise and judicious federal and 

 state governmental aid in securing improved transportation on railway 

 and steamship lines, cold storage for butter at the creameries, inspection 

 at Montreal, the chief export point for all Canada, and the securing of 

 reliable market reports and requirements in Great Britain, thus helping 

 to secure a good market for our goods when made. 



9. In conclusion we may say that dairying has developed business 

 ability and self reliance in the Canadian farmer to a larger extent than 

 has any other branch of Canadian agriculture. It has also enabled him 

 to have a better farm, better stock, better buildings and fences, and more 

 comfort and happiness in the home. What dairying has done for the 

 Canadian farmer it will do for the farmer of Indiana. There is yet 

 plenty of room at the top in the production of dairy products. The world 

 wants more and better dairy goods each year. Why should not the 

 dairymen of Indiana have a part in the good times which are coming, and 

 which never change to bad times for the successful dairy farmer? 



Following Prof. Dean's address, Hahn's Musical Quartette sang, to 

 the great delight of the Convention. 



OUR LITTLE FRIENDS AND FOES. 



PBOF. M. B. THOMAS, OF WABASH COLLEGE. 



(Abstract by the Secretary of an illustrated lecture.) 



"Despise not the day of small things." -This admonition, in substance, 

 uttered more than two thousand years ago, as a rebuke to faithless 

 observers, may well serve as a precept for us and a reminder of the 

 potentiality in little things. How feeble is our attempt to measui*e the 

 possibility of many little things by 4he ordinary methods of observation 

 as applied to cause and effect. 



Little things, too often, because of their apparent insignificance, left 

 to their natural course, become the forerunners of great aggregations 

 and the producers of effects apparently all out of proportion to their 

 obvious cause. The whole is equal to the sum of its parts, be they ever 

 so small. A dewdrop nestled in the bosom of a leaf is nothing to be 

 viewed with apprehension, but what awfvil ruin and desolation are caused 

 by terrible floods which are but tlie work of an aggregation of the minute 

 drops of water. 



