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leading to the production of highest quality will be more rigidly 

 observed. When men seek to measure individuals attention will 

 inevitably be given to those details which increase individual 

 production and in this attention, which seeks health, vigor and 

 power to digest and assimilate large quantities of food, there 

 enter in also the conditions which help the butter maker by in- 

 suring better quality of milk and cream. 



Great problems confront the dairyman of this twentieth cen- 

 tury. Type means more than breed, and individualism controls 

 production. Functions must have opportunity for natural, easy 

 play and by skill and clear insight the man at the head must not 

 only invite largest production but open the door for its realiza- 

 tion. The artist thought, which has to do with, ideals, must be 

 present with the man behind the herd as with the one who in 

 pleasing form attracts the consumer. Unless the ideal of form, 

 purpose and output is clear before the dairyman his every step 

 is hampered by doubt and fettered by uncertainty. Positive men, 

 with clear ideals and a definite purpose, reach, results, and if 

 they are the exception they surely emphasize a lesson so import- 

 ant that its force must be recognized and appreciated. 



Gentlemen, you ask specific results from your butter makers. 

 The reputation of the state, its position in the market, the suc- 

 cess of the industry, the question of individual prosperity and 

 the future of agriculture all are in the balance. Vermont, 

 like Maine, has been, is and is to be a great dairy state. The 

 limit has not yet been appreciated, the possibilities have not yet 

 dawned upon the imagination of the most enthusiastic. 



Intensive dairying, backed by extensive crop and stock, pro- 

 duction, suggests a development of the industry by which the 

 millions realized from present output may be multiplied many 

 times and that, too, without encroaching on other industries. 

 That development must come through more completely organized 

 brain power behind the hands that improve the pastures, grow 

 the crops, breed, fed and care for the stock and, through the dif- 

 ferent channels, prepare for the health of every animal, the purity 

 of the product and the finishing of the same for the palates of a 

 public growing yearly more and more critical. 



There is one supreme argument for agriculture, not applicable 

 to any other industry, yet not kept before the public or taught 

 the growing generations as its importance merits. Every other 

 industry thrives by the destruction of natural forces and agents. 

 Our forests and mountains, our mines and coal beds feed a 

 growing multitude and bring wealth to towns, cities and states, 

 but there must come an end to the forests, the marble and granite 

 have limits, and the mines and coal beds are not inexhaustible ; 

 but the more thoroughly the farms are tilled, and the larger 



