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because there is that large increase in all agricultural work 

 here in the State to which you have alluded that these calls 

 are so necessary, and I believe that with the filling up of our 

 country there are going to be more and more calls. People 

 are finding that if they are to live, that living must be brought 

 from the soil, and all of us, as you, sir, said, depend upon our 

 rations about three times each day. 



Ladies and gentlemen, I want to close by saying that this 

 Board of Agriculture, is, through its secretary and otficers, 

 increasing all the time its knowledge and usefulness. A few 

 years ago prominent speakers before us argued that we 

 carry out certain methods which, if our secretary to-day 

 does not condemn them as heresy, I know that the State 

 Board of Health will ; so we have got to learn and study 

 better methods if we are going to achieve that success which 

 we all, as New England farmers, desire. 



Mr. Chairman, I thank you in behalf of the Board for 

 the very cordial welcome, and I feel sure that we shall get 

 more than we can possibly expect in benefit from this meet- 

 ing. 



Now, ladies and gentlemen, I have the pleasure of in- 

 troducing to you one who is no stranger to New England 

 dairy methods, one who has worked in our neighboring State 

 of Connecticut for the benefit of New England dairymen, 

 and who will, I am sure, speak to you in a very interesting 

 manner, Prof. J. M. Trueman of Storrs, Conn., who will 

 address you upon "Heredity and the dairy cow." 



