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numerous conditions by which the greatest excellence 

 and largest product of butter or cheese may be made 

 to go hand-in-hand ; but, in an address like this, such 

 details can hardly find a place. 



You will then pardon me, if, passing outside of these 

 minor but still most essential particulars, I give to this 

 suggestion the broader ground on which it may not 

 only include them all, but go beyond the limits of 

 the dairy, and also reach, in these our closing para- 

 graphs, the interests of the breeder and the feeder, 

 indeed of all who are engaged in farming throughout 

 the Eastern States : Could we not accomplish more 

 satisfactory results, at less cost and hazard, if we had 

 greater faith in our pursuit, and were willing to invest 

 more of our capital in carrying it on ? 



There are those, of course, who lack the means of 

 more liberal expenditure on their farms, — who are com- 

 pelled to economise, eveu when expenditures could be 

 well repaid, because there are payments of interest or 

 principal on their title deeds which must be met — but 

 there are now also many others, who are constantly on 

 the alert for investments, away from the farm, of the 

 the money it has placed in their hands. If instead of 

 taking, dollar by dollar, all that can be scraped together 

 to buy stocks or mortgages, or venture into still more 

 speculative undertakings, such farmers would only 

 calculate the rate of interest they might obtain from a 

 sufficient outlay to bring some part of the farm every 

 year into the highest condition of productiveness of 

 which it could be rendered capable, until by degrees 

 its whole surface and that of the township in which it 

 lies, should be thus gone over, the startling disparities 

 that now. exist between the productiveness of your 



