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more in our work. Tliey said if we were going to raise 

 peaches, we must not raise apples ; and if we were going into 

 dairying, we must do dairying and nothing else. We have 

 followed that for a good long while, and now we are beginning 

 to find out that perhaps we are on the wrong track, after 

 all, and maybe would do better to go back and raise more 

 diversified products. In farming, everything depends upon 

 management. The first time I ever heard Dean Cook speak 

 was on this same subject at Lowell, and he said everything 

 depended tremendously on management; that even witch- 

 grass on a farm, if it was rightly managed, was a valuable 

 asset ; and I say, if that is so, then my farm is more valuable 

 than I ever thought it was. [Laughter.] He also said in 

 that address that the chief product of the dairy cow was the 

 manure ; her milk was to buy fodder. 



Now, we are going to have this afternoon an address from 

 Mr. Duffy of Connecticut, and I suspect that perhaps he is 

 a trust magnate, because last night I heard him say at the 

 dairyman's meeting that he sold his cream for 96 cents a 

 quart. Now, I think I myself am doing pretty well, and 

 my conscience troubles me some, because I have been selling 

 mine for 60 cents a quart. If a man can sell it at 96 cents, 

 he surely must have some pull somewhere. [Laughter.] 

 We have in law what we call the " Corporation Sole," and 

 I imagine that Mr. Duffy, perhaps, is a dairy farmer sole, 

 because I don't believe many people in Massachusetts or 

 Connecticut can realize 96 cents a quart on their cream. If 

 he can tell us how to do it, he has mastered the selling end 

 which we would all like to know something about. Without 

 detaining you further I will introduce Mr. F. E. Duffy of 

 West Hartford, Conn., who will speak on " Breeding and 

 Feeding Dairv Cattle." 



