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botb Canada and the United States. How to raise this "average" 

 is certainly a great problem. Cow-testing Associations will help; 

 the use of pure-bred dairy sires will also help; records of perform- 

 ance will help, but after all it is a question which the individual 

 cow owners must solve for themselves. We have expressed it in the 

 form of a three word proverb — Breed, feed, weed. Breed properly; 

 feed scientifically (i. e., with knowledge); and weed unhesitatingly 

 the unprofitable cows from the herd. 



If these points are carefully observed we shall have obtained a 

 great deal of useful information, and at the same time have added 

 to the revenues of the farm by means of milk production reduced 

 to science, which after all, is chieflv common sense. 



AGRICULTFRAL GUILD. 



By DR. WILLIAM HILL. ■Chicago, III. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: When your Secretary, Mr. 

 CritchCeld, asked me to come over here to Pennsylvania and tell 

 you about the (educational work for Agriculture that we have started 

 in Chicago, I told him I would do so, but that I should expect to get 

 infinitely more from the enterprising farmers and teachers of Penn- 

 sylvania than I was able to give. I have been at your sessions of 

 yesterday- and this morning, and in every one of them I have been 

 more than gratified, and have found that their contribution to my 

 enlightenment is vastly greater than I can hope, by my contribution, 

 to add LO yours. One of the things that impressed me particularly, 

 was what Dr. Hunt said before he began to talk, and I shall follow 

 his example, and sav a few words on the last topic before I begin to 

 talk. 



The last remarks made by the speaker, and the speaker on the 

 floor, in reference to the necessity of taking some line of work, and 

 then sticking to it, is one of the features to be preached to the 

 Amieiican p(30ple toda^'. It is the one thing I have emphasized in 

 my class work at the Chicago University for the past ten years. 

 Why do we go to Europe for our cattle and horses? Simply because 

 the American has not been a continuous performer. It is horses 

 this year, cattle next year: Percherons, then Trotters; Short-horns 

 today, Herefords tomorrow — a hotch-potch that nobody wants, and 

 we are going outt^ide, and putting millions of good dollars every year 

 into those countries, where son follows father along a certain line 

 and gets results. If we want to get results in America, we must fol- 

 low their example, and breed either Percherons, or Belgians, either 

 Jerseys or Holsteins, either the Trotter or the Coach horse. Set 

 your standard high; determine to make it the best that can be made, 

 and then try to leach it. Teach your son to love the stock and 

 follow you; ^o to the city market and study the best there is there; 

 show your i^.-ighbors the way, and do something that will help you 

 and help them. With set ideals, with a definite determination to 

 do the best you can, there can be no question about the results. The 



