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the larger the better. He thought farmers should raise a 
little of every thing. You could get more out of your land 
this way than could those who made dairying a specialty. 
Calvin Gilbert : (On being called upon)—Said he 
would rather let his friend McGlincy talk ; he could interest 
an audience better than himself. He thought the question 
was of much importance. Had been in the dairy business 
for 15 years and he didn’t know as he had gotten very rich 
out of it; but he believed he had done as well at that as he 
could at any thing else—any other kind of business. He 
had been traveling in the West and had not seen the wealth 
he saw at home. Compared with the South, also, we were 
much better off. He wished to digress a little. His idea 
of the dividend plan was, that it was the right plan if run 
rightly; but, as all knew, the making up of milk had been 
in a way not at all satisfactory to our dairymen. Our milk 
and money had gone out and we had received so many 
cents per hundred. This plan had been run too loosely to 
give satisfaction. When he was receiving thirty-five and 
forty cents per hundred for his milk he thought he was 
throwing it away and he had made a private creamery. 
The factories, though, were at present paying good divi¬ 
dends. He had a contract for butter, made in his own 
dairy, for thirty cents per pound, clear, in Chicago. Thought 
dairying was the business if you could keep your cows up 
all right, though you must have.your ups and downs. He 
knew that this skim cheese was ruining the trade. This 
part of the state, he thought, was adapted to dairying, 
h urther south there was no water and it made it impossible 
to dairy good in the southern part of the state. If you 
were in the business, to keep at it, and you would come out 
all right. 
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