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Let a few fellows in a community start to raise Angora Goats ; next 

 thing you know the entire community has the fever and is ready to fol- 

 low the procession. 



Again, for example, we will say that there is an agitation calculated 

 to effect some pending national currency legislation. A few fellows on 

 Wall street will go together, discuss the outcome, decide to restrict 

 loans. This action is heralded throughout the country by the press and 

 as a result there is a disposition to withhold credits on all sides. The 

 result is a panic, but it is brought about by sentiment. 



During the drought of the summer of 1901, there was a feeling 

 among live stock dealers at the leading markets that nearly all live stock 

 in this territory would have to be marketed to prevent starvmg. The 

 result was first a weak feeling and then a stampede, you might say, to 

 get prices down. The result was, prices were forced unnecessarily low, 

 and sentiment did it. 



Let a few butter dealers in any large market say they think butter 

 ought to be higher as a result of existing conditions. They back up 

 their opinions by making large purchases. Then there is a general rush 

 to buy. This forces prices up ; yet after all it was simply the opinions 

 or the sentiment of a few, that did it. 



The same thing that enters into all these things can be used in en- 

 larging the creamery business. 



It was for the purpose of putting more confidence into milk pro- 

 ducers that the Grout bill was passed. With the passage of this bill it 

 was expected that the farmers of the country would have such confidence 

 in the permanent stability of the butter markets that there would be an 

 incentive to go into the dairy business. In other words, it was calculated 

 to create a larger dairy sentiment. The same motive prompted those 

 interested to ask the State Legislature to appropriate $40,000 to build 

 and equip at Columbia the most complete and finest dairy building in 

 this broad land. The same desire to create a larger dairy sentiment 

 caused those interested to have established the Chair of Dairy Hus- 

 bandry, at Columbia, so that dairy knowledge might be circulated 

 throughout the state by means of institute meetings, bulletins, and exper- 

 iments at the dairy college. 



Some of the ways in which sentiment can be made to increase the 

 dairy business of the state are : There must be confidence and a spirit 

 of co-operation between the creameries and the patrons. Each cream- 

 ery should make a special effort to interest one or more of their most 

 practical patrons to adopt a profit and loss account of their dairy busi- 

 ness. Get them to weigh the milk produced by each cow ; make tests of 

 the individual cows ; weigh the feed. When you can get them to do 



