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turers? Tlaey are studying all the time how to 

 lessen the cost of doing business and they are 

 succeeding. There isi as much room to apply 

 intelligent thought to dairying as to any busi- 

 ness in our country. In one sense we are doing 

 a higher grade of work than any mechanical 

 manufacturer, for we are dealing with machines 

 that have life like ourselves — machines that ap- 

 preciate kind treatment and respond to it al- 

 ways with an increased profit to the owner. I 

 wish I could make the dairyman see the subject 

 as I see it — see the opportunities that might and 

 should be improved. 



Begin Study at Home. — ^We need to com- 

 mence at home to study the cause of such a con- 

 dition. Do not go to the farther end of the line 

 and kick everyone except yourself because you 

 are not making a profit in your business of 

 dairying, but commence with yourself. The 

 probabilities are that you are the weakest link 

 in the chain. Comparatively few of us have 

 the moral courage to admit that we are in the 

 wrong when we know it to be true. It is nec- 

 essary that we should reach this condition be- 

 fore we shall develop as we should. There are 

 in most communities dairy herds that produce 

 per cow from 300 to 400 lbs. of butter an- 

 nually. These herds should be object lessons, 

 as what one dairyman has done another can do. 

 We should not take figures of another when 



