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with him. If you have a dairy cow that will turn around 

 and lap you, — thinks you are her calf, — she will give the 

 largest amount of milk possible. That is what I mean by 

 sympathy. If you have a cow that is nervous, begins to 

 move and is uneasy as soon as you come near her, you 

 better let some one else milk her. 



All these factors enter into the successful dairying of to- 

 day and to-morrow. We must be positive in our work. 

 We must have ideals, and work for a positive purpose. 

 When we do that, our doubts and fears will pass away. 

 When we get hold of a great problem, we should seek to 

 bend our energies to the solving of all the mystery, and 

 reach out to-morrow for a little more than we are getting, 

 then we are being fitted to succeed. 



In the State of Maine there have never been so many calls 

 for farms as during the past five or six months. We are 

 passing out of the shadows which have been placed upon 

 agriculture daring the past eight or ten years. I believe a 

 better and brighter day is coming. And it has come out of 

 our convictions, out of our faith in ourselves and our belief 

 in the future, in return for earnest, consecrated work; 

 because we are beginning to realize the science is reverent ; 

 we are coming to feel that it is leading us out to a larger 

 comprehension of the great mysteries surrounding us, and 

 feel that over and above us there is a Providence working- 

 through us for the development of all that is bright and 

 beautiful in life. Keep on looking for all that is bright. 



Mr. Joshua Clark (of Tewksbury). The remarks of 

 the speaker reminded me of the history of a cow, and I 

 thought I would tell it to you. I have been a farmer, and 

 have earned all I have by farming. I have always been fond 

 of cows. My chief business has been raising milk for the 

 market. The thought that the speaker gave me was this. I 

 never raised but a very few cows. The mother of the first 

 cow I raised was a grade Durham, and a very large milker. 

 The father was a thoroughbred Jersey, and one of the first 

 brought into Massachusetts by E. M. Reed. I brought the 

 calf up by hand. I loved the calf, and the calf loved me. 

 As she grew older, when I went down into the woods to 

 chop, as we used to, that heifer would follow me to the 



