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a moment here to say that whenever foreign nations, some 

 of them buying our feeds, paying freight on them across 

 the nation and over the ocean, feeding them to good cov^s, 

 converting them into butter, shipping the butter back across 

 the ocean, leaping over our tariff v^all and competing v^ith 

 us, v^henever that situation begins to take place there can 

 be no doubt but v^hat there should be profit in milking 

 good cov^s properly cared for in this country. 



Now I don't believe that there is any profit in milking 

 poor cows improperly fed and improperly cared for, and 

 I believe there has never been a time when good cows, 

 properly fed, have not represented a profitable type of 

 agriculture. I don't believe the time will ever come when 

 it will be unprofitable to properly feed and care for good 

 cows. Good care and feed, and good cows go hand in 

 hand. There is no use knowing what a good cow is unless 

 you are going to properly feed and care for that cow if 

 you have her, and on the other hand it is just as true that 

 there is no opportunity of making a profit out of a poor 

 cow, no matter how well you feed and care for her. These 

 things dovetail, and in starting in the dairying business it 

 seems to me there is just one way to do it economically, 

 safely, and on the basis of making a profit. 



Successful and profitable dairying is not at all diffi- 

 cult. There is not a farmer in this country, in fact there 

 is not a boy in this country but whom you can start in the 

 dairy business and do so economically and in a manner 

 which will result in profit and pleasure to him, providing 

 he starts rightly. 



The man who is farming should not be kept away 

 from good dairying because of any great investment re- 

 quired. My observation has indicated to me that success- 

 ful and profitable dairying results from starting in a very 

 small manner, investing a small amount of money, rather 

 than starting in a good way and investing a lot of money. 

 A man who has in his mind that one good cow properly 

 fed and cared for is more to be desired than a herd of 

 poor cows improperly fed and cared for, has the secret of 

 starting in the dairy business. My experience, extending 



