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of instruction and an experiment station. It 

 should be conducted on strictly business 

 principles, with practical dairy methods and 

 i\. system of operations in vogue that any 

 farmer could duplicate. The plans of the 

 buildings, the cost of erecting and maintain- 

 ing them, the cost of the herd and the profit 

 from it, indeed, every item connected with 

 the establishment, should be freely offered 

 for the inspection of the dealer's farmers 

 and available for their use. It should be a 

 practical demonstration of what a dairy 

 farmer can do in the matter of profit, in the 

 matter of producing good milk, and in the 

 matter of keeping it clean. 



An opportunity for the dealer to exercise 

 profitable philanthropy is in the institution 

 of hospital barns and quarantine quarters 

 for his dairy communities. It is not sup- 

 posed that these should be conducted on a 

 charitable basis, but rather be self-support- 

 ing. Where dairy farmers in the vicinity of 

 such an institution number from fifty to one 

 hundred, and their herds approach in round 



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