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the dollar necessary to become a member of this society. 

 He thought, while McGlincy was reading of the immense 

 amount of dairy products that had been sold on the board 

 of trade, he would like to ask where the the money had all 

 gone. If we had received it, what had we to show for it ? 

 Providence and the prosperity attending business had miade 

 times a little better. God had sent dry weather the past 

 year that we might get good prices for our products. And 

 the president had read how our exports to Europe had 

 increased ; all of which has had a tendency to better the 

 markets; but would we dare to depend on these next year? 

 He would digress a little : He believed in diversified farm- 

 ing. His idea had been for years that a man could make 

 it the most successful. He kept twenty cows on one hun- 

 dred acres of land. Beside these he could raise a few calves 

 and a few colts. He supposed that was called diversified 

 farming. Kept a few turkeys and chickens and other fowls. 

 He knew a man named Rohlston, who lived on Henry 

 Sherman's farm, near Elgin, who sold ;^i, 800 worth of sweet 

 corn the past year, and spent every cent of it in buying 

 feed to keep his dairy of seventy-five cows. His neighbor, 

 Larkin, had made money in the dairy business — he could 

 make money at any thing. He would advise dairymen to 

 go slow. It had been suggested that the business would 

 get down to a solid basis before long, but if ever the busi- 

 ness got lower down than it had been, God help us ! Some 

 one had spoken about home consumption of dairy products. 

 The trouble there had been that the dividends paid by the 

 factories had been so low that the patrons couldn't get 

 money enough to buy cheese. It wasn't all in skim cheese. 

 It wasn't all in under-consumption. What was to be done ? 

 Go into mixed farming ? He would advise again to go 

 slow. Raise some calves, raise some pork, and if your 

 cheese spoiled before you sold you had something to fall 



