1396 
November  4.  1010. 
Army  button  on  bis  coat,  a  woman  of  mid¬ 
dle  ;ig<\  evidently  his  daughter,  and  a 
widow,  and  a  bright-eyed  boy  of  10.  They 
had  come  down  from  their  hill  farm — a 
group  representing  the  past  and  the 
future  of  New'  England,  and  they  listened 
while  our  New  York  friend  told  bis  story 
of  the  tight.  The  woman  spoke  first:  “I 
know  about  that.  My  sister  married  a 
dairyman  and  they  have  had  a  hard  strug¬ 
gle.  Her  husband  had  become  discour¬ 
aged,  and  when  this  milk  question  came 
to  a  crisis  he  did  not  see  how  he  could 
fight.  My  sister  said  that  not  one  quart 
of  milk  should  leave  that  farm  until  the 
dealers  paid  a  fair  price.  She  kept  her 
husband's  courage  up  and  sent,  him  on 
picket  duty.  She,  with  the  children, 
milked  and  cared  for  the  milk  in  pots  and 
pans,  wash  tubs  and  anything  that  would 
hold  it  until  the  fight  was  won.  As  I 
read  her  letter  I  thought  it  was  only  a 
revival  of  the  spirit  of  my  great  grand¬ 
mother,  who  sent  her  husband  off  with 
the  ‘minute  men’  in  the  Revolution. 
What  we  New  England  people  need  is 
something  to  arouse  that  old  spirit  of 
fighting  for  our  rights.  We  are  afraid  to 
disturb  the  dollars  we  have  tucked  away 
with  the  interests  which  oppose  xrs.” 
Then  the  old  man  had  his  say :  “When 
I  came  hack  from  the  Civil  War  I  saw 
that  New  England  farming  was  dying 
out.  I  should  have  gone  to  the  West  and 
taken  a  farm,  but  the  old  folks  needed 
me,  and  I  stayed.  My  brother,  who  is  on 
these  grounds  today,  went  to  Kansas,  got 
land  at  $1.50  per  acre,  and  has  just  sold 
it  for  $250.  I  have  seen  the  old  spirit 
and  glory  pass  out  of  farming.  The  man¬ 
ufacturing  towns  combed  the  hills  and 
took  our  young  people.  I  could  not  fairly 
argue  with  my  children  that  farming  of¬ 
fered  them  superior  opportunity.  Now  T 
think  the  tide  is  turning  back.  This 
great  show  will  give  a  new  character  and 
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man  was  more  conservative.  It.  depends 
on  what  farmers  are  paid  for  their  milk. 
The  Yankee  is  not  going  to  work  for 
nothing  and  board  himself.  Let  him  see 
that  he  can  get  a  fair  price  and  he  will 
increase  his  dairy  and  produce  more  milk. 
Dairying  in  Massachusetts  will  always 
be  essentially  a  business  of  producing 
viilk — not  making  butter  or  cheese  and 
just  as  loDg  as  the  handlers  and  contrac¬ 
tors  have  the  upper  hand  all  the  dairy 
shows  on  earth  will  never  make  a.  Yankee 
invest  more  money  in  the  business. 
What  Is  Com r no. — “I  guess  you  are 
right  there,”  put  in  the  New  York  man, 
“but  we  can  see  light  over  in  our  State,” 
Then  he  went  on  to  tell  about  the  big 
battle  over  milk  prices,  and  as  he  told  it 
a  crowd  gathered  aud  listened  intently. 
“We  have  learned  our  great  lesson,”  he 
said.  “Such  big  shows  as  this  are  needed, 
and  we  need  to  learn  more  about  produc¬ 
ing  and  care  of  the  milk,  but  the  selling 
end  is  more  important,  and  we  have  got 
to  have  strong  anjl  savage  fighters  to  hold 
up  our  end.  We  know  now  that  we  can¬ 
not  work  alone  as  individuals,  hut  we 
have  got  to  get  together  and  learn  how 
to  make  our  milk  into  a  legal  and  sani¬ 
tary  product,  and  sell  it  ourselves.  By 
doing  that  we  can  hold  the  advantage  we 
have  gained  In  the  increased  price,  and 
increase  the  consumption  by  letting  the 
consumer  have  it  at  a  fair  price.  Why,  if 
these  men  who  are  selling  pasteurizers 
and  other  milk  implements  only  knew  it 
their  greatest  trade  in  the  next  five  years 
is  to  be  not  with  the  big  milk  companies 
hut  with  the  farmers  who  must  learn  bow 
to  assemble  and  handle  this  milk  or  go  out 
of  business.  I  believe  they  will  do  it  and 
thus  I  believe  dairying  is  entering  upon 
a  great  development  in  the  East.” 
Youtii  and  Ace. — Nearby  as  this  man 
talked  stood  one  of  those  groups  so  char¬ 
acteristic  of  New  England,  a  tall,  erect, 
white-haired  man  of  70  with  a  Grand 
HOPE  FARM  NOTES 
this  great  exhibition.  I  want  to  talk  of 
the  human  side.  Walking  about  among 
the  acres  of  exhibits  one  could  find  every¬ 
thing  used  for  producing  or  handling 
milk.  From  the  cow  to  the  last  thing  in 
wrapping  and  package,  everything  which 
the  human  brain  has  yet  devised  for  a 
dairyman’s  profit  or  convenience  could  be 
seen  and  examined.  The  human  exhibit 
was  greatest  and  most  wonderful  of  all. 
Friends  of  the  cow  came  from  every  cor¬ 
ner  of  the  country.  Many  of  them  had 
never  been  in  New  England  before,  and 
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