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fcrusl will follow the close of the address. Pray be free to 

 debate, to controvert, to differ at your heart's content; thus 

 will the grain be threshed from the straw. 



Lies were classified once by somebody as white lies, black 

 lies and statistics. Again, it has been said that, while 

 "figgers don't lie, some liars figger." Notwithstanding 

 these strictures, I am going to risk calling your attention 

 for a moment to certain statistics showing the wonderful 

 increase in the dairy industry in the west during recent 

 years and the relatively small volume of New England's 

 dairy interests. The only data at all adequate to the pur- 

 pose are given in the census of 1890, and refer on the one 

 hand to the six New England States, and on the other to the 

 twelve northern central States, — Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 

 Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North 

 Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, — all of which 

 are now largely engaged in dairy husbandry. 



Cows. — There were in 1890 ten times as many cows in 

 the northern central States as in the New England States 

 (New England, 822,001 ; northern central States, 8,240,- 

 999). During the forty years from 1850 to 1890 the 

 number of cows in New England increased 35 per cent, 

 while in the same time the number in the northern central 

 States was multiplied 527 per cent (New England, 1850, 

 608,219 ; 1890, 822,001 ; northern central States, 1850, 

 1,564,219 ; 1890, 8,240,999). Indeed, the increase between 

 1880 and 1890 in the number of cows kept in the northern 

 . central States was 53 per cent, as against 29 per cent in- 

 crease in forty years in the New England States. This in- 

 crease was three and one-half times the total number of cows 

 now held in New England (northern central States, 1880, 

 5,402,081; 1890, 8,240,999). 



Milk. — Eight times as much milk was made in 1890 in 

 the northern central States as in the New England States 

 (New England, 338,911,582 gallons; northern central 

 State-. 2,719,414,765 gallons). 



Butter. — Eight and one-half times as much butter was 

 made in the northern central States in 1890 as in the New 

 England States (New England, 77,240,024 pounds ; northern 

 central States, 650,551,588 pounds). 



