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mend the idea of stable scoring. Over in our State we have 

 gotten out a score card wliich covers not only the stable but 

 the milk product made in that stable ; and we have found, 

 by going to those who are producing milk, particularly to a 

 body of men such as I judge are supplying this co-operative 

 society here, that it gives good results. When you score 

 the stable, take the man right with you, and have him help 

 score it. Here is that gutter with the manure in it ; sup- 

 pose that gutter was absolutely clean, you would call 20, per- 

 fect ; but, being dirty, how much would you take off for it? 

 You will find the farmer will be more severe and critical than 

 yourself in scoring it. He will take so much off that there 

 won't be anything left. Take the manger : suppose, if it 

 was all swept out clean, just as you want to have the kitchen, 

 it would score 20 for perfect ; how much would you cut it 

 down for not being clean ? Nine times out of ten the farmer 

 will cut it heavier than the inspector would. Look over- 

 head at the ceiling, and if it is like some, unfortunately, 

 there are rails thrown over the l^eanis and the ha}^ is thrown 

 right on the beams, and the dust is going down a little, and 

 there are a good many cobwebs up there ; and you say, 

 "Suppose that was scored, Mr. Smith, how nmch would 

 you cut it?" Again he Avill cut it more severely than you 

 would. I know, because I have been out with them in this 

 very work. I am a farmer myself, and my sympathy and 

 business interests are identical with yours. Now, the trou- 

 ble with many of us is, we don't see things. A hinge gets 

 loose, and we go by a hundred days, and wouldn't see it; 

 but if it was our next-door neighbor's, we would notice it 

 the minute we got in the barn. A gate gets loose, and 

 remains so six months ; and if we happen to go to our neigh- 

 bor's, and see the same thing, we wonder what is getting into 

 that man, — is he going down hill, or what, that he doesn't 

 mend that gate ? We don't see ourselves as others see us. 

 The one thought I want to leave with you is this, — just see 

 yourselves as others see you. Every man who is making milk 

 for the market in Massachusetts should have this for his prayer, 

 <' Oh, Lord, help me to see myself as other men see me." 



Adjourned. 



