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Then we must consider the future in this business. No 

 man can hve for himself alone today without having a dila- 

 tory, depreciating effect upon those who follow him. So comes 

 this matter of maintaining soil fertility. You may figure that 

 on your farm you have the fertility necessary to supply your 

 needs while you are on that farm, but there is some one corning 

 after you, and it is an obligation which rests upon you to main- 

 tain the fertility of the soil to dignify this calling of dairy to 

 improve the quality of your dairy products, to let nothing hap- 

 pen which will result in its value being depreciated. The future 

 rests in the hands of such bodies as this. I thank you. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



