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Then in some other cases, demands will come from the city, which 

 probably you have never heard of. Where I live there is considerable 

 more money made in boarding horses than in keeping cows and sheep. 

 For example, there are in New York City thousands of truck horses 

 kept at high expense. During the dull season the owners are glad to 

 send the horses into the country, where farmers feed and care for them 

 and charge $12 or more per month for doing it. The same is true of 

 driving horses. "When people go away from home, they like to have their 

 animals go to the country for board. Yesterday I saw "Defender" the 

 steer which won the prize at the International Stock Show. You think 

 there is money to be made in feeding your hay and grain to such cattle, 

 and yet I presume I will shock you when I say that some of our people 

 in the East will make considerable more money in proportion to the 

 cgLpital invested, in boarding dogs and cats. There are women in New 

 York City who think more of a cat than they do of a child. When 

 these people go to Europe or away for the summer, they cannot carry 

 these pets with them and do not care to leave them in their houses. 

 They are willing and glad to pay such prices as $1.50 for a cat or $3.00 

 for a dog in payment for a week's board and care. There is a woman in 

 Connecticut who, I am told, makes an excellent living by boarding 

 cats. Left alone by her father with nothing but an old broken down 

 farm, and without tne health and strength needed to run it, she has 

 gone into this business of taking care of these pet animals and receives 

 a larger income than the majority of farmers in her town. I merely 

 speak of these things and I might mention many others to show you how 

 our markets have developed and how they have forced us into new lines of 

 work. You will understand, of course, that I am not advising your young 

 men to go East and board cats and dogs. I simply show you these things 

 that you may think about them. In a similar way many of these things 

 will develop in the West as your cities grow richer and larger and your 

 people acquire these expensive tastes and desires. 



I said not long ago that some of your money goes East. I shall 

 show you, before i am done, that far more of it goes East than stays at 

 home, and I have no doubt you will be interested to know how some of it, 

 at least, is spent. Perhaps, I can give you an illustration which will 

 point this out. An old man has told me, how seventy years ago the 

 first railroad ran through the northern part of Vermont, and there 

 were two small boys, who had never dreamed of seeing a railroad train. 

 Mother told them that if they were good boys and performed their 

 work, they could walk ten miles and stand on a certain hill and see the 

 train go by. These two boys started out early in the morning, so excited 

 that they forgot to eat their breakfast. Mother gave them two cents to 

 spend on the way and told them they must be careful how they, spent 

 it. Oh! these thrifty Vermont mothers. You gentlemen, in your 

 wealth and strength, smile at them today, and yet do you realize how 

 much they did to develop your country? These boys, on their way, 

 went by a store and invested one cent in two old fashioned crackers. 

 Pretty soon they got hungry and they sat down and split one of the 

 crackers and ate it up. After a mile or so more they were hungry again. 



