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keep one cow on two acres ; did not believe they were well 

 kept. As to why the price of cheese is so low ? it was all 

 plain to him — it was because there was too much cheese. 

 When pork is low, there is too much pork ; when wool is 

 cheap, there is too much wool ; and the same with every- 

 thing else. We are now making more milk than the land 

 will naturally produce. We would make more money to 

 kill one-half of our cows and let one-half of our farms go 

 wild. He made eight or ten cans per day ; his neighbors 

 made a long wagon-load ; we all make too much. His 

 expenses, of all kinds, including tsxes etc., were about ;^900 

 or ;^ 1,000 per annum. As to the loss from keeping up a 

 dairy — there was no loss. He sold his fat cows for about 

 ^40 per head, and could buy in for less money. Always 

 kept his cows fat and in condition to sell ; he could clear 

 annually from his little farm ^1,300 or ^1400 ; what large 

 farm could do better. 



W. W. Bingham was also in favor of small farms. 

 There was less wear and tear, and on the whole were far 

 more profitable and more desirable. 



J, Keating said it would not do for one man to reduce 

 his milk one-half, with an idea of controlling the market. 

 If there could be a concert of action and all do so, it might 

 do some good. It seemed to him that the sensible plan 

 was for each man to make all he could from his land, let 

 his farm be large or small ; each farmer should keep all the 

 stock his farm would carry. 



C. C. BuELL could see, that if you cut an article in two 



pieces, how it might affect the whole ; same with silver or 



"gold. Thought a good agricultural paper was a good 



medium to learn how to do these things scientifically ; there 



had been too many hap-hazard experiments; must get 



