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keeping cows for milk production, without very much regard 

 to the quaUty of the milk, you should select from certain 

 other breeds. For example, if you are sending milk to New 

 York, Boston, or Providence, and the trade doesn't care very 

 much what the quality of the milk is, provided it meets the 

 requirements of the local standard, you would find among the 

 Holsteins and Ayrshires cows that are more productive and 

 which would, consequently, give you more quarts and prob- 

 ably more dollars than you would find among the Jerseys and 

 Guernseys. On the other hand, if you are producing butter 

 and want to get the largest quantity of butter fat and market- 

 able butter from your cows, you would find more animals 

 among the Jerseys and Guernseys that would answer that 

 requirement than among the Holsteins and Ayrshires. 



So much for the dairy test. 



Now, it may be of some interest to you if I take a little 

 time in telling what part Connecticut took in this great Pan- 

 American Exposition, and how she helped to make it a suc- 

 cess. Her exhibits extended all the way from wooden 

 nutmegs to the longest ears of corn that were shown from 

 any State in America. The horticultural exhibit and the 

 agricultural exhibit made generous displays of wooden nut- 

 megs, and we had a number of very interesting inquiries for 

 this product. For example, a woman came along one day 

 and said she wanted to see some of the wooden nutmegs that 

 grew in Connecticut. These were shown to her. She looked 

 them over carefully, but seemed a little puzzled, and finally 

 she asked, " Cannot you show me the bushes that they grow 

 on ? " In the horticultural exhibit they had quite a lot of 

 them, and overhead was a placard reading, " Product of Con- 

 necticut forests." Our friend, Mr. Eddy, improved that a 

 little by adding to it so that it read, " Product of Connecticut 

 forests ; ripened by machinery." That seemed to puzzle 

 people more than any other thing in the exhibit. 



As I said a moment ago, many of the states were noted 

 for showing some special product which represented their 

 special agricultural industry, and Connecticut had at least 

 one or two products which were not excelled by those of any 

 other country or State. The product from our State which 

 attracted as much attention as anything was the tobacco. 

 According to the opinion of experts this was not surpassed 

 by the tobacco from any other State or country. 



