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more profitable crop? Success in agriculture does not admit 

 of slip-shod, indifferent methods. It has become fashion- 

 able to complain and question, and at the same time do 

 virtually nothing, because the fire is scattered over the whole 

 range of products, and details are neglected. 



As in the mercantile world success lies in doing a larger 

 business and thus overcoming the loss otherwise sustained 

 by reason of a lower range of profits, so in agriculture it 

 must be found in more intensive culture, the introduction 

 of labor-saving machines, and the complete cultivation of 

 larger areas, thus reducing cost of production. The lower 

 range of prices sure to prevail in coming years can thus be 

 successfully met, and profit realized. By conducting farm 

 operations to-day upon strictly business principles, a fair 

 measure of success may be secured. 



Away up in the north-east of Maine may be seen the most 

 wonderful section of country to be found in all the eastern 

 or middle States. Those Aroostook fields, lying in gentle 

 swells, are rich and fertile, but they are removed from the 

 great centres, and transportation is a heavy item ; yet the 

 farmers there are finding prosperity, for they have solved 

 this question, and, by putting business into their farm work, 

 are happy, contented, and growing wealthy. 



Is there a stock feeder finding the balance on the right 

 side of the ledger at the close of the year? then every other 

 feeder might find the same by the application of the same 

 degree of skill and intelligence. If these are not introduced, 

 shall we charge failure to the industry, or the man? Why 

 have you not a hundred Deerfoot farms in this State? Is it 

 not because you have not the men willing to give the energy 

 and application which have insured success there ? 



Gentlemen, the opportunities for success lie all about 

 us. Precious gems are at our feet ; but, in the mad rush 

 for wealth, in the vain endeavor to grasp the whole, we 

 stumble over the little things out of which enduring results 

 are to be builded. 



The dairymen of Maine, who have, by a careful study of 

 individuals, by breeding and weeding, by weighing and 

 selecting, secured a herd every one of which will yield 

 three hundred pounds of butter yearly, have success within 



