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makers should write a few articles for the county papers. They do not 

 have to be long ones, you might just say a few words. You will get so 

 that you can say more, and pretty soon you will be a nuisance to the 

 paper. I never saw a man that was a good buttermaker but what made 

 a success of his business. You want to get some kind of a dairy paper 

 into each patron's home, and into his hands. If he will not take one him- 

 self send one to him and make him take it. Spend $25 in that way. It 

 will do you good. 



(Applause.) 



Mr. Bosey: I have been in 27 different States and I have yet to find 

 a place better fitted for the dairy business, than Indiana. People talk 

 about the great dairy possibilities in northern Wisconsin, for instance. 

 These possibilities are nothing in comparison to the possibilities which pre- 

 sent themselves in Indiana. The climatic conditions are better; the soil 

 is better; we can grow alfalfa— the greatest dairy food we have. When 

 I came to Indiana three years ago full of enthusiasm put into me 

 by Frot. Henry, like Mr. Slater's suggestion, I commenced to write articles 

 for the newspaper. I found it very difficult to get the farmers to take 

 the agricultural papers. 1 remember one instance in Brown County when 

 I went to a man and wanted him to take the Indiana Farmer for one 

 year at 25 cents. He explained to me that he did not have very mu(;b 

 time to read, and I explained to him that he would have all he could read 

 there, and said that every little helps, and he said to me: "That is the 

 reason why I want to keep my quarter in my pocket." I kept on writing 

 and pretty soon I wrote on the dairy possibilities of Indiana, of centi-al 

 Indiana, I should say. Not nearly all that I wrote was published, for 

 they did not have room for it. What the people need here is some sort 

 of an awakening. Indiana has blessed its citizens bountifully in the past. 

 I have been able to make a living without doing much. I was talking 

 tliis question over with a man from Benton County and he said he would 

 not give the snap of his fingers for a farmer's institute or agricultural 

 journals. He insisted that it took practical experience to make a farmer. 

 He had good soil up there, and I'll venture to say he could not tell the 

 difference— the points of difference — in a dairy cow and a common beef 

 cow. When it comes to scientific farming, which we must get into in 

 the future, he would lag behind. It is easy to make a living. when you 

 do not have to do anything with the soil to make it produce. But soils 

 that have been good producers in the past are becoming tired out. and in 

 the years to come when the dairy cow is found to be the cheapest of any 

 form of live stock, she will stay after all other kinds of live stock have 

 passed out of existence. The people of Indiana should be awakened to 

 see these things. There are possibilities lying right at their door if they 

 will only take them in. There is the old saying that necessity is the 



