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the more fully appreciate their own learning 

 and welfare, let us put the matter before the 

 constituencies and vote upon it. If we lose, 

 it will be only for the time : the choice will 

 be before us, blessing or cursing ; and I know 

 that some day we shall choose the right 

 god to serve. 



If I may now return to milk — our pro- 

 blem as a people is to get a larger quantity of 

 pure quality from the farms to the consumers. 

 Here I am immediately in presence of an 

 important valley requirement which I have 

 not yet alluded to. I have, however, already 

 pointed out that if we are aiming at quantity 

 we must have recourse first to well-bred 

 cows. And, in consequence, it is of the very 

 first importance that the valley manage- 

 ment should have good bulls, for they seem 

 to have a greater influence upon the milking 

 properties of the calf than the mother herself 

 has. If there were no other reason for inter- 

 ference in farming affairs, this item would 

 be sufficient. We cannot afford any longer 

 to allow the indiscriminate use of worthless 

 stock, for we might feed two bullocks and 

 one good cow while we are wasting our 



