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chines that ar3 being invented for the purpose of raking 

 in their hard-earned dollars. Some of those gentlemen 

 who come to these meetings to show up their 

 machines are pretty smart fellers ; they talkj pleasant 

 like, and some of them look like as if they were honest 

 men, but I advise my feller farmers to go slow. 



My mother was the best butter maker in the county 

 back in York State, and my wife can beat any factory 

 ever run to-day making butter, and she doesn't have 

 any of them expensive things to work with either, but 

 she tends right to business and makes boss butter, and 

 her butter has a flavor when you eat it on hot griddle 

 cakes that this sweet creamery butter that you talk 

 about doesn't have. 



E"o\v, Mr. President, I want to say before I close this 

 paper that I know that the original cow that we used 

 to have before they begun to fetch in them new breeds 

 is the best cow for the common farmer. 



I don't take any stock in a cow that you have to 

 have a college professor and a lot of testing machines 

 to tell what her milk is made of, and then them new 

 breeds have to be fed one kind of feed when you want 

 them to grow and another kind of mixed feed when 

 you want them to give butter, and then you have to be 

 eternally looking after them to see that they produce 

 the right kind of a calf. No, sir, Mr. President, the 

 original cow that can grow or give milk on what she 

 can pick up on the farm, with a few nubbins of corn on 

 bad days and a little bran slop when she comes in, is 

 the most profitable cow for the farmer, because she has 

 a better constitution and doesn't cost as much as the 

 Jerseys and Holstein cows do. 



As I said before, I am a man of a few words, but 

 what I know I know, and with these few remarks, Mr. 

 President, I will close. 



