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little matters brought directly to their notice in a prac- 

 tical way. Ninety-nine out of every one hundred of the 

 farmers that are making butter, are leaving \ to 1^ lbs. 

 of butter in every 100 lbs. of milk that they churn. 

 This they carry out to their hogs, and thus feed butter 

 worth from 25 cents to 30 cents a pound to hogs- that 

 will sell for 4 cents. In the aggregate this loss is 

 enormous. 



The seed germ of a single grain of corn is very 

 small and a seemingly insignificant thing, but it con- 

 tains a little oil. There is one establishment in Chi- 

 cago that manufactures twenty different products from 

 corn; among them is a certain oil. The amount of 

 corn used is 15,000 bushels a day, and from the germs of 

 it they obtain from fifteen to twenty barrels of this oil. 

 Every particle of the corn is turned to some use. Take 

 another instance, a car load of cattle or hogs are 

 bought by a large packing firm, every pound of them 

 is made into a merchantable product. There is practi- 

 cally no waste. Men have and are accumulating 

 immense fortunes out of apparently insignificant things 

 that under ordinary circumstances would be wasted. 

 The reason is that by concentration, apparently worth- 

 less items, by proper manipulation, become valuable. 



The evils that grow out of this concentration it is 

 not the object of this paper to discuss. As a rule they 

 are a disadvantage to the producer. I simply want to 

 show why it is impractical for individual capital to be 

 so concentrated as to produce these results in farming 

 operations, and that it is absolutely necessary that our 

 government should not only maintain our experiment 

 stations so well started, but should do everything to 

 increase their usefulness. The amount expended is 

 nothing compared to the good done. I believe that 



