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farm that arc causing a considerable outlay, with no return, 

 there will always be more or less loss, and, at the same time, 

 considerable fault finding at the conditions of country life. 

 If we could get at some way to get rid of those cows, those 

 aninuds that are causing a loss all the time, it would be one 

 step towards imj)roving conditions on the farm. I think this 

 meeting will not have lost its purpose, and will have accom- 

 plished a great deal of good, if we can only start some organi- 

 zation which will have as its end a cow-testing association. Is 

 it not w^orth one or two dollars a year for the farmer to know 

 which cow is paying a profit and which a loss ? 



Mr. C. E. Ward (of Buckland). Speaking about these 

 cow-testing associations, you have got to get the farmer first. 

 Our western Massachusetts creameries are ready at any time 

 to test a man's herd. If the farmers in the vicinity of Ash- 

 field, for instance, care to know what their cows are doing, 

 they have them tested, free of cost, and wherever there is a 

 creamery I have no doubt that can be done. 



If President Roosevelt's commission is going to do some- 

 thing for the country people, why, let us have it. Yet I 

 believe that in rural Massachusetts the people of the country 

 are more and more becoming awake to their privileges and 

 opportunities ; they are more and more enjoying life ; they 

 are more and more becoming what they should be, — part and 

 parcel of this country, taking their places where they belong. 

 They do not think they are lost in the country, but they think 

 they are the people, and are going to be some one, and hold 

 up their heads alongside of any of them. 



Mr, Geo. B. Fiske (of Boston). Organization is what is 

 needed. If each farmer here would go home and use the tele- 

 phone and local papers to get speakers, and advertise a meet- 

 ing to consider matters relating to country life, then send a 

 report to the county commissioners, to their representatives 

 in the State and national Legislatures and get things going, — 

 then there would be some prospect of their getting what they 

 want through their public representatives. 



Professor Brooks. I want to emphasize what the last 

 speaker has said. In Amherst we are trvins: to do just that. 



