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impart and receive knowledge, learn to distinguish a good 

 and profitable cow, know the comfort of a seat on a milking 

 stool, and not get mad if butter from the same churning 

 don't take both first and second prizes in the same class. 

 " The wind bloweth where it listeth," etc. He should 

 know enough not to put colts and steers and cows into the 

 same pasture and yards and expect a profit from the cows. 

 He should have eyes to see that by letting a lot of hungry 

 hogs run with his cows, in order to save the droppings, he 

 does not give his cows a minute's rest for turning feed into 

 milk. It implies that the dairyman has a farm which is 

 either excellent for grass or otherwise adapted to produce 

 both grass and grain. In the first case he may profitably* 

 as a rule, buy more or less grain to supplement his grass, 

 and in the latter case he would probably feed the grain he 

 raises. It implies that the dairyman does not live either in 

 Alaska or Florida, if I am rightly imformed about the cli- 

 mate of these two localities. In short, it implies that there 

 is a general and intelligent adaption of means to the end to 

 be accomplished. 



As to the future, I never considered the foresight of 

 the person, who claimed to see far into it, established. He 

 sometimes pretends to see a long way, but usually, like the 

 cross-eyed girl, acts as if looking somewhere else. There 

 undoubtedly will be ups and dozvns — mostly downs, prob- 

 ably, as it will appear to each one with respect to his own 

 business. There is no more prospect of free trade in money 

 than of free trade in general. Money will not be allowed 

 to become in fact as practically in law a commodity as well 

 as money, nor will it be permitted to perform the simple 

 duty of exchange, useful for currency, but comparatively 

 useless as a commodity merely. The banking function, so 

 called, would be interfered with. A whole class of money 

 issuers would thereby lose their occupation. 



There is no probability of another war to send butter 

 up to fifty cents per pound and more. The Boises, the 

 Wanzers and the Elginites are not going to sell their butter 

 for ten cents a pound more than the rest of us can get. 

 They will have to ride in the omnibus. We doubt whether 

 the doUar-a-pound customers are to increase, but the con- 

 sumers of good butter will, and there will be more of it. 

 The dairyman's dish will not probably be always right side 

 up ; but if he be neither fickle nor foolish, he may catch 



