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man went into dairying he needed to do that exclusively. 

 If you got to raising other things you couldn't give dairy- 

 ing the attention it needed to make it profitable. 



On motion of Mr. Baker a committee consisting of 

 Dr. Tefft, R. M, Patrick and C. C. Buell was appointed to 

 meet Governor Cullom, who was expected on the noon 

 train. L. Bartlett was later added to this committee in place 



of C. C= Buell, who was unable to serve. 



Question No. 7 — " Is it advisable for dairymen to 

 continue in the business ? " — was then taken up. 



The president called on J. R. McLean, who was down 

 on the programme for a talk on this subject. 



J. R. McLean : Said the former question had so 

 completely used this one up that there was nothing left for 

 him to say. He would have prepared a paper on the sub- 

 ject had he not known that the former qustion would 

 necessarily cover the ground. He remembered, in connec- 

 tion, the old maxim — " Every body gives advice and few 

 take it." He thought this question must be left to each 

 man who was in the business. Every man knew whether 

 he had been doing well the past year and whether it would 

 be profitable for him to remain in the business. If a man 

 had a factory close by, run on honest principles, it would 

 probably be a good plan to keep at it. He had talked with 

 quite a number of well-known dairymen on this subject 

 and had concluded that if it was not for the recent boom 

 dairymen in general would have had to sell their dairies to 

 buy bread for their families ; but things are better now. 

 He was satisfied with what he was getting for milk ; but if 

 he had not had something else to fall back upon he would 

 not have been there, nor would he have been able to raise 



