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strated that our kind of agriculture can endure 

 through many centuries. The good dairyman need 

 have no doubts or misgivings on that score. If he 

 carefully conserves all the manure and puts it on 

 the fields and supplements his home-grown rough- 

 age with purchased concentrates, he may go for- 

 ward in the calm assurance that where he keeps 

 cows today he may keep still more cows in days to 

 come. He will have the satisfaction of knowing 

 that he will "leave the soil better than he found it" 

 and he will be able to hand down to his children 

 an ever richer heritage. 



There remains at least one more consideration 

 and it is a rather intangible one. Somehow or 

 other it cannot be gainsaid that dairying makes 

 for agricultural and community stability. Farm 

 tenantry is in many of its aspects unfortunate and 

 a menace to our ideal country-side development. 

 The typical tenant has no real abiding place and 

 he makes a crop and then moves on, seeking new 

 fields of adventure. When a man acquires flocks 

 and herds, he begins to strike root in the soil. 



The relative permanency of dairying, the all-the- 

 year-round character of the industry, the regularity 

 of it, the high intelligence which it demands and 

 the increasing value and productivity of dairy 

 farms are all factors that give special dairy com- 

 munities the best developments of our rural life. 



