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direction, that the useful characteristics of our animal t^ 

 can be preserved and advanced. When individual 

 citizens are so busy with their own affairs, for the interest 

 of farmer's prosperity, it becomes a necessary considera- 

 tion, and a most important one, how the state can best 

 promote the general agricultural interests of her people, 

 by encouraging with instruction and object teaching, 

 those ways and systems that will promote a knowledge 

 of and demand for the best in all kinds of live-stock, in- 

 cluding milch stock, and the best results in growing and 

 acquiring their food, as well as how to present it to them 

 injudicious and profitable rations. The housing of ani- 

 mals, food and manurial substances, demand economy 

 in all details, to secure best profits in each case. Constant 

 vigilance in all ways is as necessary to preserve the pro- 

 fit condition of a milch cow as it is of life or anything 

 else in the world. 



I want to make it clear that it is as important for our 

 agricultural organizations, experiment stations, and boai d 

 of Agriculture to constantly direct their efforts towaid 

 the promotion of high ideas as to what our live stock of 

 all kinds should be, as it is to endeavor to experiment 

 with methods of feeding the animals, and the crops which 

 they consume. High quality in the livestock brought 

 into our markets and onto our farms, is desirable and 

 profitable. 



For one I feel that we can well press forward such 

 efforts. I trust these ideas will meet with favorable 

 consideration at your hands in the discussion that shall 

 follow. 



It has been only by many years of constant care with 

 most judicious selection and treatment in localities of 

 most healthful kind, that our breeds of cattle have been 

 preserved and brouglit to this best known condition in 

 our part of the world. And in the older countries the 

 well known breeds were made possible only by the 



