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is going on under our eyes. If you are a reader of any of tha 

 high-grade dairy papers you must have noticed how with such 

 wonderful rapidity butter and milk records are being broken. 

 New ones are made only to be smashed a few days later by' 

 records still more astounding. They come so quick and fast 

 that they almost take our breath away. Back of these records 

 stand the trained stock breeder, the food expert who knows how 

 to blend and balance the food so that it gives the correct ration, 

 and with them comes the co-operation of the scientific farmer 

 who is willing to embrace these discoveries as they are brought 

 forth, so that many stories we hear sound very much like an 

 Arabian Night story of men who have accumulated wealth in 

 this iine, and cows that seem to have the touch of old Kamg 

 Midas for making money. Am T right in this, you gentlemen 

 who know? 



Many of the men that you are listening to at this meeting 

 are self-sacrificing men. They are willing to help you, and yet 

 not for the money that is in it for themselves, but for the good 

 of ihe cause; and they are making reputations for themselves 

 which will last long after they have passed away. 



It is a pleasure for me to know that I am connected with a 

 bank which is willing to co-operate and to help the farmers who 

 are willing to enter into the problem thoroughly. The farmer 

 must not think that he can buy these high grade cows and turn 

 them loose, and let them take care of themselves for that is a 

 big mistake. 



In order to get more thoroughly informed on this subJ€\:t, 

 a few of my associates and myself have bought the poorest 80- 

 acre farm in Centralia Township. We are now endeavoring by 

 scientific farming to bring it up to the point where this farm 

 will sustain the herd of Guernsey cattle which we brought in 

 from Wisconsin. We are going to attempt to raise alfalfa and 

 barley, and will put much of our land to Sudan grass. 



The first thing, that we bought was a manure spreader. All 

 of the droppings not only of the cattle but of the 30 mules that 

 we are working at the coal mine are being systematically spread 

 upon this land. A crushed lime stone spreader was also pur- 



