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the larger the better. He thought farmers should raise a 

 little of every thing. You could get more out of your land 

 this way than could those who made dairying a specialty. 



Calvin Gilbert : (On being called upon) — Said he 

 would rather let his friend McGlincy talk ; he could interest 

 an audience better than himself He thought the question 

 was of much importance. Had been in the dairy business 

 for 15 years and he didn't know as he had gotten very rich 

 out of it ; but he believed he had done as well at that as he 

 could at any thing else — any other kind of business. He 

 had been traveling in the West and had not seen the wealth 

 he saw at home. Compared with the South, also, we were 

 much better off He wished to digress a little. His idea 

 of the dividend plan was, that it was the right plan if run 

 rightly ; but, as all knew, the making up of milk had been 

 in a way not at all satisfactory to our dairymen. Our milk 

 and money had gone out and we had received so many 

 cents per hundred. This plan had been run too loosely to 

 give satisfaction. When he was receiving thirty-five and 

 forty cents per hundred for his milk he thought he was 

 throwing it away and he had made a private creamery. 

 The factories, though, were at present paying good divi- 

 dends. He had a contract for butter, made in his own 

 dairy, for thirty cents per pound, clear, in Chicago. Thought 

 dairying was the business if you could keep your cows up 

 all right, though you must have your ups and downs. He 

 knew that this skim cheese was ruining the trade. This 

 part of the state, he thought, was adapted to dairying. 

 Further south there was no water and it made it impossible 

 to dairy good in the southern part of the state. If yoii 

 were in the business, to keep at it, and you would come out 

 all right. 



