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whose chief aim is to secure high prices for their own wares and 
low ones for every one else, but a general co-operation in commu¬ 
nities by which a local reputation shall be gained for excellence in 
whatever may be the products of the locality. A few illustrations 
will best convey my meaning. It seems that in Chester county, 
Pennsylvania, a number of farmers combined in breeding with care 
a style of hogs which have become widely known as Chester- 
Whites. They have attracted attention for many years, until the 
whole country has become filled with them. I have no statistics in 
reference to them, but we all know that many thousands of pigs 
have been sold from that locality at large prices, so that it must 
have been an immense source of revenue to that district of country. 
Breeders have made large fortunes in the sale of these hogs. It 
would have been of doubtful policy for a Chester county farmer to 
have rejected this breed in favor of any of those which are now 
preferred before them. His true policy would have been to have 
co-operated with the rest in securing as high a grade of excellence 
as possible in the hog for which the district was famous. 
We hear too, of Orange county butter. A national reputation 
for excellence in this product has been achieved in that locality. 
Orange county land may be excellent for many purposes, but the 
probability is that a man in that region can do no better than to 
fall in with the local industry and help to maintain the local repu¬ 
tation, which is a fortune for the whole region. 
It does not matter in the least what may be a man’s individual 
opinion of the comparative merits of the Devon, Durham or Jersey 
cattle. In the Island of Jersey it is probable that the breeding of 
Short Horns would be a failure, and so would the Jerseys be a fail¬ 
ure in Devonshire or Durham. I have realized lately more point¬ 
edly than ever, the mistake which any neighborhood makes in scat¬ 
tering in its aims in so small a matter as hog breeding. While one 
still clings to the Chester Whites, another prefers the Berkshires, 
and another the Poland Chinas. This makes it far more difficult 
and expensive for us to secure suitable crosses than it would be if 
we had a common aim. We are now all likely to degenerate to¬ 
gether. With concentration of effort we might easily secure the 
best of either variety, and so establish a local reputation which 
would be of advantage to us. 
I made a journey the past fall to a locality where I supposed 
