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a given product. Men are like trees ; you can change the 

 size, but not the sort. We must enter into a closer sym- 

 pathy with our dairy cows. As I study this question, it 

 grows on me more and more. In order that we may succeed 

 to-day, it is necessary for us to come into closer sympathy 

 with the animals under our care, and that we have a larger 

 conception of what the animals are and what they can do for 

 us. We should realize the fact that the milk and butter fats 

 are the products of nerve force, and are developed by the 

 brain of the animal. Does it not fall upon the owner with 

 heavier force to-day than ten or fifteen years ago that he led 

 the cow out into larger fields of usefulness by the develop- 

 ment of that animal? If this is true, during the early stages 

 of the animal's life we are to fix the standards which deter- 

 mine the quantity of the product, and prevent turning atten- 

 tion toward the formation of fats. So, by our methods of 

 treatment and the thought of what the future work is to be, 

 when the calf comes to maturity it will be ready to do all 

 that is possible. I say this because it seems to me that 

 the competition of the future and the necessity of to-day 

 compel us to study this question from every stand-point 

 by which we may increase the product of our cows. We 

 cannot be content with one hundred and twenty-five pounds 

 of butter; we must have two hundred and fifty, two hun- 

 dred and seventy-five or three hundred pounds, — all the 

 while reach after a little more in each animal and in the next 

 generation. 



So, to be a successful dairyman to-day, there must be a 

 mind with large conceptions. I do not know of any chance 

 in agriculture for a man to succeed who has anything else. 

 We have been passing through a stage of depression. I 

 believe one of the great causes for the depression of our 

 farm property is that we have been looking on the dark side 

 of life. We have not started out with a positive will and 

 determination to seek to do the largest and the best of which 

 we were capable. As the outcome, we have been doubting 

 the question as to whether there was a future for agriculture, 

 whether there was ever goini; to be a chance for the New 

 England farmer to succeed. The press has been adding its 

 weight. 



