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man went into dairying he needed to do that exclusively. 
If you got to raising other things you couldn’t give dairy¬ 
ing the attention it needed to make it profitable. 
On motion of Mr. leaker a committee consisting of 
Oi. Tefft, K. M. Patrick and C. C. Buell was appointed to 
meet Governor Cullom, who was expected on the noon 
train. L. Bartlett was later added to this committee in place 
of C. C. Buell, who was unable to serve. 
Quest, ion No. y Is it advisable for dairymen to 
continue in the business ? ”—was then taken up. 
The president called on J. R. McLean, who was down 
on the programme for a talk on this subject. 
J. R. McLean : Said the former question had so 
completely used this one up that there was nothing left for 
him to say. He would have prepared a paper on the sub¬ 
ject had he not known that the former qustion would 
necessai ily cover the ground. He remembered, in connec¬ 
tion, the old maxim— u Every body gives advice and few 
take it.” He thought this question must be left to each 
man who was in the business. Every man knew whether 
he had been doing well the past year and whether it would 
be profitable for him to remain in the business. If a man 
had a factory close by, run on honest principles, it would 
probably be a good plan to keep at it He had talked with 
quite a number of well-known dairymen on this subject 
and had concluded that if it was not for the recent boom 
dairymen in general would have had to sell their dairies to 
buy bread for their families ; but things are better now. 
He was satisfied with what he was getting for milk ; but if 
lie had not had something else to fall back upon he would 
not have been there, nor would he have been able to raise 
