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raising eggs. And he is right, if a man can ob- 

 tain the reputation and market which will com- 

 mand such prices. 



In a dairy section, about one farm in fifty can 

 profitably be devoted to raising high-grade 

 bulls. It is better for the forty-nine other farm- 

 ers to pay one of their number to study the 

 matter of breeding and become proficient in the 

 practice. 



It is often profitable for one farmer in a dairy 

 region to make butter. The average farmer 

 does not care to add to the complexity of his 

 work by churning at home. Many of them do 

 not care to use butter that is made under condi- 

 tions too frequent in creameries. The profes- 

 sional butter-maker can turn out a good product 

 if he has the supplies of good cream, but in 

 nearly every community are a few farmers who 

 do not keep their cream up to the standard of 

 cleanliness, and this unclean supply is mixed 

 with the good, thus bringing down the quality 

 of the mass. Again, it often happens that the 

 little village, set within the midst of dairy 

 farms, is almost without milk for the house- 



