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of dairymen in this province, in this year 1896, who will say 

 that other breeds, on the whole, are preferable to the Jersey. 

 I have no personal desire to change that man's mind, and I 

 have only one request to make, that in order to obtain the full 

 value of his butter, that he will stamp the butter or package 

 with the name of the breed from which it is made, whether 

 Holstein, Ayrshire, Short Horn or scrub, and not use an 

 article manufactured in the States called butter color, which ^ 

 saw advertised in an American paper as being so perfect in 

 <:olor and harmless in taste, that the Jersey cow herself could 

 not tell it from her own. 



ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN. 



Before closing let me say a few words to the young men in 

 order to arouse them to an effort to elevate the standard of 

 the agriculturist in this province. An old Roman poet who 

 lived before the birth of Christ said, "Time spent in the culti- 

 vation of the fields passes very pleasantly," and all through 

 the early ages tilling the soil was regarded as one of the most 

 ennobling pursuits of man, but if so regarded in days gone by 

 when but the crudest tools were known, when the inventor 

 had done little to lighten the labor of those who bore the bur- 

 den and heat of the day, surely the cultivation of the land 

 in our day must be esteemed a delightful occupation, and so 

 it is. Healthful, ennobling, invigorating, and scientific, with im- 

 plements of all kinds to make easy what was before drudgery, 

 the tilling of the soil has become an art worthy of our best 

 men. The ancient Romans esteemed two occupations and 

 placed them higher in the social order than all others, they 

 were military service and agriciMture. All other labor was 

 assigned to slaves, while the man who tilled the soil was as 

 much respected and stood as high in the social scale as his 

 brother in a government office or in the military service. 



