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you can drive a Jersey cow into it and not be able to see her 



back in the field. 



Mr. Seeley. a few words before we take up the next 

 topic. We have heard the favorable side of sheep raising. I 

 want to know something about the unfavorable side. We 

 have got today, in the State of Connecticut, thousands of acres 

 of sheep land back on the hills. We have been putting it 

 largely into dairy farming, but those backlands, away on the 

 hills, will not make milk very much longer, of the standard 

 quality demanded nowadays, and the consequence has been that 

 there has been a gradual withdrawing of our dairy herds from 

 those sparse lands. Consequently, as the years have gone by 

 sheep have commenced to roam over those sparse lands to a 

 large extent, but I do not think that the industry compares 

 very favorably with what this gentleman has been telling us in 

 regard to sheep raising. I fully concur with many of his 

 remarks, and I agree fully with him when he spoke about a man 

 running a farm with so many sheep and so many cows, and 

 running it all himself. That is the only way to make any 

 money. And I am glad he has been thinking of those old men 

 that lived 'way back fifty years ago, that did lots of work and 

 saved their money. That is where they got it. I do not know 

 whether the boys will ever do as their fathers did or not. I 

 do not imagine that they will. I expected to see a large crowd 

 of young people here today, and I am sure it would have been a 

 great benefit to them if they could have heard what our speaker 

 has told us. It would also show them what our fathers did in 

 years past. I myself have been through .just that kind of ex- 

 perience. I can remember about how we used to go out on a 

 frosty morning, barefooted, and run and stand in place where 

 an old cow had got up, so as to get our feet warm. I am 

 afraid that the boys nowadays would not be willing to do as 

 some of us have had to do. 



Now, my question is, how can we make these back hill lands, 

 these poor cheap lands, available today? As I view it, one 



