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here and do the very thing which I sliall do to my l)oys. 

 This is a college, to all intents and purposes ; it is a university 

 extension. And so I say again, that this land that you have 

 here is not very poor land, only you have not somehow got 

 hold of it right. Your land is better than you think it is. I 

 know it to be so, because when I can take an old clay pit at 

 Cornell University that was supposed to be run out, and 

 raise more than twenty-four bushels of wheat per acre on it 

 for three years in succession, without any grass or clover 

 intervening, or any fertilizers or any farm manures, I know 

 that there is the same fertility in your land, and I know that 

 first-class culture will get it out. I know that you have the 

 foundation for the best dairy animals in the world right here 

 in this State. I know that some of our records in this State 

 have beaten any of the records that have ever been made in 

 Europe. If I am wrong, correct me. I know that you can 

 not only perpetuate the Jersey cow, but you can make better 

 butter than the Channel Island men ever saw. I know that 

 the plain farmers up on these Massachusetts hills can have 

 heavier bank accounts than the farmers of Jersey have. I 

 refer to the Jerseys because we have started out with them, 

 and probably that breed is better adapted to this climate and 

 to these conditions than the Holstein. I think very likely 

 that is the case, but I do not know it to be so. Now, I say 

 that every farmer on these pleasant hillsides can go home 

 and take advantage of the good animals that he has in his 

 stables, discarding the others, and have a variety of Jerseys 

 that, if they are well bred, will equal an average thorough- 

 bred Jersey herd. I say to-day, and I say it publicly, that 

 I have a herd of grade Jerseys that I will pit against the 

 average production of the thoroughbred Jersey cattle, — not 

 against the best of them. I have a herd of grade Holsteins, 

 or a variety of Holsteins, bred by myself there for illustra- 

 tion, that will excel the average production of all the thor- 

 oughbred Holstein cows. Some of the cows I started with 

 gave less than three thousand pounds of milk a year, and I 

 have got an averas'e from both herds of over eio;ht thousand 

 pounds per cow a year. I have Holstein grade cows that 

 when I came away the professor of dairy husbandry said 

 they had crossed the ten thousand pounds limit, and the year 



