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ment house on my farm. Now, had I not been able to furnish 

 that man with employment whereby I could pay him good wages 

 and furnished him employment the year round, I could not have 

 kept him. Should I just furnish him with work for seven or 

 eight months in the summer and fall, I never could have kept that 

 man in that way ; neither could I have afforded to keep that man 

 had I grown hay or some line of stock that I could just as well 

 have cared for and this man had to go away for the winter sea- 

 son. I must have some business on that farm to furnish him 

 employment the year round and must have a business that will 

 bring me returns so I can pay him good wages. Now, we have 

 our cows freshen in the fall — we make a business of dairying in 

 the winter. The cows give more milk when fresh at that time 

 and we can profitably employ that help through the season and 

 pay them their wages, because the cows enables us to pay good 

 wages. When it comes the busy season in summer, in harvest 

 time, we want our cows dry for six weeks to two months. By 

 handling the dairy in that way it helps a man out in the labor 

 question. 



Considering the matter of a dairy as a part of the farm opera- 

 tion — you will agree with me that it is necessary on our farms 

 in Michigan to carry on some line of live stock husbandry. I will 

 agree with you that we have some of the finest farms in the 

 state of Michigan, but you will agree with me that the man who 

 keeps a large line of animals upon his farm, feeds out the stuff 

 and gets returns to the land in the form of excrements, is the man 

 who will produce better crops than the man who does not do that 

 and in the days that are to come he will go on producing good 

 crops, while his brother who does not practice that is bound to 

 fail. So you will agree that we must carry on some kind of live 

 stock husbandry. There is good profit in it, because we upon the 

 farm must consider not only how many dollars' worth of stuff we 

 can sell this year, but we want to go on producing as many dol- 

 lars' worth as we can in the years to come and we wsnt to le^ve 

 that farm so our children °nd children's children afterwards may 

 go on producing, because you and I when we have spent our nest 



