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Much, more might be said as touching cheaper production and greater 

 profits for dairymen. Time, however, will not permit, and in the final 

 summary would say the chief requisites are, first, the proper coniferma- 

 tion, the balanced ration, summer soiling after July 1st, protection from 

 ■cold during the winter months with abundance of sunlight and good ven- 

 tilation, while in the stable (which should be nearly all the time), and 

 kind treatment always to our bovine mothers, which among our domestic 

 animals is the best friend and gre atest money maker man ever had. 



Rubbing against the Chief of the Dairy Division of the University of 

 Minnesota, that student of studen ts, in his constant increasing research 

 for more kniowledge foT the dairymen's benefit, has endeared Professor 

 T. L. Haecker to the heartsi of the dairymen of Minnesota unequaled by 

 any living American. The permission from the regents of the Unversity 

 to distribute regardless of state or territory the bulletins issued at the 

 dairy division in the department o f agriculture, to any who should exhibit 

 interest enough to ask for them, is an expression of the earnest desire of 

 the chief of the dairy division to b uild up and develop the dairy industry 

 everywhere and has made Professor Haecker a benefactor to the dairy 

 world. No thoughtful student can fail to catch an inispirati on from such 

 a noble character. 



Touching the elbows of such a man an hour before preparing my 

 paper for this convention has awakened in me a desire that I might weave 

 words together that would be like apples of gold im pictures of silver and 

 arouse my fellow dairymen to awaken from the lothergy and sleep of 

 death tdi a life of activity and profits worthy their calling. Many a farm 

 wife long after the shades of night have gathered around the home, nerved 

 lip by a stern duty t<j economy, sits patching the little pants or darning the 

 little stockings, to save a nickel, while her husband unconsciously 

 squanders a dollar every day by not adopting better and more intelligent 

 methods of feeding. God in his providence has stored up for his children 

 the bountiful sunlight and refreshing showers, which He dispenses to 

 the human race and cattle upon a^thousand hills as they may need. The 

 sparkling dew drops are diamonds, which express the wealth of the great 



