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keep one cow on two acres ; did not believe they were well 
kept. As to why the price of cheese is so low ? it was all 
plain to him—it was because there was too much cheese. 
When poik is low, there is too much pork; when wool is 
cheap, there is too much wool; and the same with every¬ 
thing else. We are now making more milk than the land 
will naturally produce. We would make more money to 
kill one-half of our cows and let one-half of our farms go 
wild. He made eight or ten cans per day; his neighbors 
made a long wagon-load ; we all make too much. His 
expenses, of all kinds, including taxes etc., were about $900 
or $ 1,000 per annum. As to the loss from keeping up a 
dairy—there was no loss. He sold his fat cows for about 
$40 per head, and could buy in for less money. Always 
kept his cows fat and in condition to sell; he could clear 
annually from his little farm $1,300 or $1,400; what large 
farm could do better. 
W. W. Bingham was also in favor of small farms. 
There was less wear and tear, and on the whole were far 
more profitable and more desirable. 
J. Keating said it would not do for one man to reduce 
his milk one-half, with an idea of controlling the market. 
If there could be a concert of action and all do so, it might 
do some good. It seemed to him that the sensible plan 
was for each man to make all he could from his land, let 
his farm be large or'small; each farmer should keep all the 
stock his farm would carry. 
C. C. Buell could see, that if you cut an article in two 
pieces, how it might affect the whole; same with silver or 
gold. Thought a good agricultural paper was a good 
medium to learn how to do these things scientifically; there 
had been too many hap-hazard experiments; must get 
