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winners, that she is a woman of unusual ability; she has 

 taken a correspondence course at the Agricultural College, 

 and she has advanced very rapidly in agricultural knowledge 

 and evinced more intelligence and good judgment and care 

 in the protection of her premises from flies than any other 

 person who entered the contest. 



I would be very glad to go on further if I had time, but 

 I judge from the hint given me by your secretary that I must 

 say no more at present. Perhaps later an opportunity will 

 be given me to read a paper on this fly contest, which I shall 

 be very glad to do, because I think it is a matter which 

 ought to be thoroughly understood. 



However, if you will pardon me, Mr. Secretary, there is 

 just one more thing I want to say and that is that if a person 

 didn't win a prize in this contest he must not be discouraged. 

 Be game. The reason you didn't win a prize was not be- 

 cause you produced dirty milk, but only because some one 

 else did just a little better. When this thing comes up again, 

 come back, every one of you. Come back determined to be 

 the prize winner. The chances are almost 100 to 1 that some 

 of you who lost this time will be prize winners next year. 



Secretary Wheeler. It is a diflicult thing to realize what 

 has been done in the State of Massachusetts in regard to the 

 raising of poultry, and to that end we thought it was neces- 

 sary to have some one speak on the subject at this meeting, 

 and I think we couldn't have secured a better man than 

 Professor Graham of the college to come and tell us some- 

 thing about this important subject. It gives me great pleas- 

 ure to introduce to you Prof. J. C. Graham, of the Amherst 

 Agricultural College, who will speak on " Feeds and Feed- 

 ing." 



