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make botli of sufficiently good quality to command buyers 

 abroad ; in uo country is the consumption, of butter at least, 

 so great in proportion to population as among ourselves, so 

 that, between the home and foreign market, there seems no 

 reason to fear that a strictly first class article of either should 

 ever fail to bring a remunerative price. 



With this consideration before us, there is one suggestion 

 which may be perhaps most forcibly brought to the notice of 

 dairy farmers, although you will at once recognize its appli- 

 cability I trust, to farming of every other kind, and that is, that 

 the better the product — the more perfect the process of its pro- 

 duction — the better the profit it yields. Within the scope of 

 this suggestion, is the more careful selection of the cows that 

 constitute the dairy, in order to raise the average yield of 

 butter or cheese for each cow kept, to as high an amount as 

 possible, but upon that point we have partially touched under 

 the head of Breeding. Within it, too, is the idea of higher 

 keeping, so that the cow when done with for the dairy may sell 

 well to the butcher — but to this we have also referred, in the 

 last division of our subject. Within it, are embraced more- 

 over, all the details of the dairy, the neatness and the skill 

 required, and the numerous conditions by which the greatest 

 excellence and largest product of butter or cheese may be 

 made to go hand-in-hand ; but, in an address like this, such 

 details can hardly find a place. 



You will then pardon me, if, passing outside of these minor 

 but still most essential particulars, I give to this suggestion the 

 broader ground on which it may not only include thetn all, but 

 go beyond the limits of the dairy, and also reach, in these, our 

 closing paragraphs, the interests of the breeder and the feeder, 

 indeed of all who are engaged in farming throughout the Eastern 

 States. Could we not accomplish more satisfactory results, at 

 less cost and hazard, if we had greater faith in our pursuit, and 

 were willing to invest more of our capital in carrying it on ? 



There are those, of course, who lack the means of more 

 liberal expenditure on their farms, — who are compelled to 

 economize, even when expenditures could be well repaid, 

 because there are payments of interest or principal on their 

 title deeds which must be met — but there are now also many 

 others, who are constantly on the alert for investments, away 



