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Every creanieryman and every buttermaker should encourage his pa- 

 trons to do this. The owner of a creamery should make it his business 

 to secure in some way or other, wherever they are procurable, good sires, 

 bring them into his community and sell them to his patrons at cost or 

 on time, if you please, and take the cost price out of the milk checks 

 gradually and build up, by his own efforts, the cattle in his community. 



I became acquainted with a man from Texas who wished me to come 

 and see his ranch. He told me what he was trying to do; he didn't say 

 anything about trying to get rich, but his whole conversation centered 

 around what he was going to do with one community of the United States. 

 He had seen a large portion of the United States come into agriculture 

 and become robbed of its fertility. He desired to have a hand in build- 

 ing up instead of wearing out his part of the country. I think his was 

 a great ambition — to bring one section of this great country into agri- 

 culture, to begin at the beginning and build it up instead of tearing' it 

 down. I Was impressed with that man and visited his farm. He had 

 secured 390,000 acres of land in one of the worst sections of the United 

 States which could be found. He went into that section where fifteen 

 or twenty years ago it was said of the land that nothing would grow 

 on it except rattlesnakes and cactus. It was mostly sand land and suf- 

 fered from great drouths. He began buying dairy cattle. 



iWhen I was there on the fifth of November a year ago, I saw them 

 getting twelve tons of feterita per acre. Now that man went there and 

 spent his money to disclose the value of that land before he would sell 

 an acre. When he sold his first, and his tenth, and his fiftieth, and his 

 hundred and fifty-sixth farm, he said to the buyer, "I Will sell you this 

 land under one condition, and that is that you take with it some cows 

 because you can't live in this country without cows." He took me around 

 and showed me the prosperous farms on that sand land, the men build- 

 "ing up homes, men who were prosperous even though they had suffered 

 occasional drouths. 



That's what one man with the right idea in his mind has done for his 

 community, and he was surprised to find that because he had done this 

 for his community the value of the land increased from 50c to $35 an 

 acre. He woke one day a millionaire and it came simply by trying to 

 build up a community and help the people in the community — and I 

 commend this thought to the buttermaker. 



That man went into a country where there was nothing but the long- 

 horned Mexican steer. He bought dairy cows and put them where men 

 said they couldn't live. I saw the report of his creamery yesterday, 

 for the 27th of September. In that little creamery he made on that 

 date 1,781 pounds of butter and last year from that creamery the out- 

 put sold for the second highest price of any creamery in the United 

 States. His ambition, and it looks as if he is going to be successful, is 

 that this year he will pay his patrons the highest price for butterfat of 

 any creamery in the United States. This is being done in the land 

 "where only rattlesnakes and cactus ' grew twenty years ago. 



The entire world is being denuded of live stock, especially dairy cows. 

 Three years are required to grow a producing cow, and if we are going 



