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■butter from the lower States finds its way to New York. 

 These, however, cut but a small figure in that market. 

 New England butter and cheese as special classes, worthy 

 of special quotations, have long since disappeared as factors 

 of trade outside of the limits of the six States. New Eng- 

 land of itself, however, is a great and ample market, but 

 more and more each year the goods of the west are elbowing 

 the home-made product out of its own place. Every year 

 the proportion of western goods sold in the Boston markets 

 increases, while that of eastern make diminishes. Here is 

 where the shoe pinches. This is why, of all the important 

 matters connected with dairying, your secretary deemed 

 this the burning dairy question of the day. This is why, 

 moreover, he broadened the topic to cover New England, 

 and did not limit it to the Bay State only. We feel this 

 competition on our Vermont hillsides, as do you in the Con- 

 necticut valley. It behooves us, then, as dairymen, to con- 

 sider carefully any and every legitimate means which may be 

 suggested looking towards the wider use of eastern dairy 

 products. 



A general, in planning a campaign, seeks to learn the na- 

 ture, extent, location and disposition of the enemy's forces, 

 and the advantages he possesses ; he measures against them 

 his own resources ; and finally studies wherein he may lessen 

 his opponent's chances of battle, and improve his otvn. Let 

 us, similarly, in surveying the field of strife for supremacy 

 in the dairy trade, observe : — 



I. What marked advantages over the east are possessed 

 by the west ? 



II. Wherein has New Eno-Umd advantage over western 

 rivalry? 



III. How may New England dairying more successfully 

 meet the competition of the great west? 



I. Western Advantages. 



Several circumstances conspire to favor western success 

 in dairying, among which may be mentioned : — 



1. Cheap feed. 



2. Large territory and large numbers. 



