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judicious use of % paper, traps, sprays, etc., aids materially 

 in reducing the number of flies after they have appeared. 

 The greatest effort, however, should be made to prevent fly 

 breeding, and this should be done by using such means as are 

 effectual, and at the same time do not injure the fertilizing 

 properties of the manure. 



We believe there is yet much to be learned in regard to 

 the means of preventing fly breeding, and it is hoped that 

 this contest and others that may follow will be useful in 

 developing still better methods and devices. 



E'ature has apparently provided flies as the natural accom- 

 paniment of certain more or less disagreeable and unsanitary 

 conditions. Remove these conditions and the necessity for 

 flies no longer remains. 



Mr. Worth. We will now adjourn until 2 o'clock, when 

 there will be a lecture in this hall by Mr. F. E. Duffy of 

 West Hartford, Conn., on " Breeding and Feeding Dairy 

 Cattle." 



Afternoon Session. 



The afternoon session was called to order at 2.15 by Sec- 

 retary Wheeler, who introduced as chairman for the after- 

 noon, Mr. B. W. Potter of Worcester. 



Mr. Potter briefly referred to the morning's debate as 

 follows : — 



ADDRESS OF MR. BURTON W. POTTER. 



We had a good lesson this morning, and it seems to me that 

 the essence of Professor Warren's contention is not the su- 

 periority of the large farm over the small farm, but the supe- 

 riority of diversified farming over specialized farming. 

 That was the lesson that forced itself upon me the most. I 

 am a dairyman and I have long wondered what was the rea- 

 son that my profits are so small, but I am beginning to think 

 that it is because I don't raise enough other crops. I don't 

 consider myself entirely responsible for that, because pro- 

 fessors and experts for twenty-five or thirty years past have 

 come to these meetings and told us that we were to specialize 



