io THE STATE AS FARMER 



cities as well as for the farmer's family, if we 

 determine to encourage proper farming by 

 instituting a complete system of transport 

 in winter and in summer. I do not say that 

 the new system will pay the farmer much 

 more than the present system does ; I reserve 

 my opinion upon that. But I affirm that 

 it will give the State four or five times the 

 weight of good food, and will incidentally 

 keep in comfort a much larger agricultural 

 population. 



Let me now speak more intimately of 

 some of these operations to which I have 

 referred. The milk and eggs require daily 

 care if they are to be of use. It is to be 

 noted that I am now speaking of every acre 

 in the district under review, not of an isolated 

 farm here and there. I have before me the 

 new system of which I have spoken, where 

 the farmers act under the State's own eye. 

 Though each may yield only a little, the 

 motor comes to the gate and takes that little 

 to the duly arranged cooling station or egg- 

 collecting depot, and leaves the accumulated 

 load to be treated in accordance with the 

 district scheme. Here is no middleman or 



