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chusetts who ten years ago bought a farm of about 120 acres 

 of which 50 acres were tillable, and those were New England 

 acres, the land sour, sharp and gravelly with practically no sur- 

 face soil, six inches. He gave a $4,000 mortgage on it; he 

 owned five medium to poor cows and went out and got some- 

 body to stake him to buy five more. That was ten years ago ; 

 today what has he? He has bought 60 acres to add to the 120 

 acres, he built a $2,500 barn which he paid for in cash; he has 

 gradually added to his herd and about seven years ago he went 

 out and bought three pure bred Jersey cows. Today he has 45, 

 head of pure bred Jerseys in his barn besides that $2,500 ban? 

 and additional 60 acres, and of the mortgage he carries only 

 $2,000. His cows, if sold in the open market would be worth 

 $4,500. That is what the dairy cow has done for that man. I 

 could cite case after case. 



I would like to cite one other case : It is a different type 

 We are kind of proud of the West in the East; we sent all our 

 good men out West to make the Middle West, all the ambitious, 

 capable business men of New England — not all of them, but a 

 very large per cent — came out here and that is why you are suc]'j 

 a great country, and that is one reason why we have not pro- 

 gressed as fast as you. 



One of these men, he's now quite ^n elderly gentleman and 

 a very good friend of mine, was nineteen years old when his 

 father died, and, for some reason or other, the farm had to be 

 sold. He was left to shift for himself, came West and got into 

 business. The farm had been in the family since the Revolu- 

 tionary War and there was some sentiment stifled when it wa?' 

 sold. There was a good barn on the farm; which liis father 

 had just finished before he died. The young fellow never fcr- 

 got it and wanted to go back and buy that farm with :he gc-od 

 barn. He started about 1893, got that farm, eight cows and 

 started to ship milk to Boston and he went on buying cows, 

 working up his milk route until about 1900 or 1901, at that time 

 he owned 30 cows and had quite a nice little milk trade. He 

 then began raising his own cattle. 



In 1901 or thereabouts, he had 30 cows; today he is milk- 



