tors the latest inventions that bear upon their work in the 

 field ; we have endeavored to promote improvement in the 

 seeds used, and the character of the fertilizers given to 

 the crops ; and in other ways, and so on, as required by 

 our cherished calling. 



What further still can we do ? Surely much remains 

 to be done in bettering the yield per acre of our crops, in- 

 creasing the yield in milk per cow, in the improvement in 

 our horses for the many special purposes to which they 

 are put, etc., etc. The fire engine and artillery horses 

 should not be too clumsy, and the draught horse should 

 not be too slight. The farm horse should be solid enough 

 for the team and plow, but light enough for the road and 

 getting the doctor quickly when needed. Perhaps the 

 doctor should have the fast horse to answer the telephone 

 calls. These problems are often somewhat complex, al- 

 though none the less real. 



Now that leads me to speak of an experience that I have 

 lately had. I have been trying from several of the leading 

 dairy implement makers to learn if I could set up a cream 

 separator and churn to be run by electricity, via an electric 

 motor. But I have had a most trying time, without re- 

 sults. I could not understand why the dairy manufactur- 

 ers could give me no satisfaction, and I was being referred 

 to some one else, until a dairyman told me at our last New 

 England fair that the manufacturers had dog and goat 

 powers on hand, and were unwilling to advise or consider 

 electric power yet, or until the dog and goat powers had 

 been sold. 



Electric power in cars has done much to aid the agri- 

 culturist in both business and social ways. Cannot the 

 way be devised by which the farmer can have his business 

 advanced by rendering it possible for him to secure elec- 

 tric motors and various machinery that can benefit him 

 and increase his profits, to be run thereby? May our 

 agriculturists give the thought consideration. 



