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was SO original, so remarkable, so unique, so complete, that it is 

 like attempting to paint the lily to discuss it. 



The CHAIRMAN: I was very much interested in this paper and 

 with the talk of Brother Northup; but there is certainly, after all, 

 two sides to this question, and it depends largely on our locality 

 and on our surroundings as to the character of work we should fol- 

 low and make a specialty of it. There are localities, where to make 

 a specialty would be decidedly to the advantage of the dairy farmer. 

 There are other localities where it would not do to make an entire 

 specialty of the dair}'^, that is, in order to make a success of it. For 

 instance, go down to the farm near the cities, where the dairy farmer 

 has forty or fifty acres of land and has, probably, fifteen or twenty 

 cows and makes butter and has a city trade and delivers it to his 

 customers, and has been successful. In addition to that he has 

 dozens of other croj^s that he delivers directly to his customers in 

 addition to that butter. His customers make inquiries for fruit 

 and vegetables from the vegetable garden and they say, bring it 

 along when you bring the butter. Those men have been largely sue 

 cessful. So it depends on the man who is behind the plow or the 

 hoe. It does not do, in a general way, to put all our eggs in one 

 basket. I have learned that it does not do to depend on one 

 or two crops, but we must have something else besides, 'and if one 

 thing fails we will have something else to meet our bills. We know 

 it does not do to depend on the grain; we know it does not do to 

 depend on the fruits; for I heard our brother say this morning that 

 is was an entire failure last year, and everything was frozen this 

 year. Now, must he depend largely on that? No, that won't do. 

 Always have something ready for market, is my motto. A few years 

 ago there was a tremendous crop of potatoes. We hauled to the 

 city of Philadelphia at twenty-four and twenty-five cents a bushel, 

 on a farm that I had charge of, and we had a large flock of sheep, 

 and we had raised turnips for them and we had to get away the po- 

 tatoes, but the turnips brought three times the price of potatoes 

 and we fed the potatoes to the sheep and sold the turnips. 



The CHAIRMAN: The next subject on* the program is "Our New 

 Road Law," by Mr. Hunter. 



The paper read by Mr. Hunter is as follows: 



