fortune ? If you will adopt the dairy system our land- 

 will increase in value, and you will have enough to give 

 your wife and children a little, and have as much left 

 as you have got now. 



It is our duty as citizens to think on this important 

 subject, and the danger into which we are drifting. 



Shall we turn our attention to dairj T farming? The 

 last census (1880) showed that there were sixty per 

 cent, of the population of the United States engaged 

 in agriculture and rural pursuits, and in 1890 only 

 forty per cent. The idea that some have expressed to 

 me, " Why, if you all go to dairying who is going to 

 eat the butter and cheese and drink the milk" — if you 

 will think for a moment, the consumption is increasing 

 faster than the production to-day. Butter averages 

 higher to-day than it did twenty years ago, certainly 

 much higher than forty years ago. 



Count the numberless creameries springing up all 

 over this country, yet the production of butter evident- 

 ly is not increasing any faster than the consumption. 

 I do not think we need worry about that, it is quite 

 certain that the consumption of dairy products in this 

 country is going to increase quite as fast as the pro- 

 duction, and in the meantime, by the system of dairy 

 farming, you will let your land rest, you will build up 

 the land. 



Music— Flute Duet. 



