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the business of manufacturing cheese, that we can cultivate a 
farm of 200 acres with the same amount of force that is need¬ 
ed out here in the tilling of eighty acres of land. This is the 
reason that we can send the products of our labor to Europe. 
We must run our cheap lands against their dear lands, and we 
should avoid as much as possible running our dear labor against 
their cheap labor. Therefore, two-thirds of the producers of 
New York and portions of Ohio and Canada where they are en¬ 
gaged in the dairy business, are prosperously engaged, because 
they have the benefit of the markets of the world. 
In coming to travel through this country, and in meeting 
farmers who have this question upon their minds, how far 
they can profitably vary their pursuits, I am frequently asked 
if this business of making cheese will not be overdone. They 
have been warned here by some sad experience^, that from 
time to time many agricultural pursuits that have a passing 
popularity, have ended in disaster. Such was the result of 
raising hops in many parts of the west. And there is a natu¬ 
ral fear in the minds of farmers in this country, that if they 
all go into the dairy business they may overstock the market 
and inevitably fall into the same misfortune. Now I wish to 
explain to you here why I think that fear groundless, and I 
beg you will bear with me patiently while I try to make the 
point clear to you. 
The farmers of the west, and part of the east are interesting 
themselves extensively in the question of diversifying their 
pursuits. The question of going into the business of dairying 
as it is conducted in the eastern states, then, is a very import¬ 
ant question. In the first place you can do that for the reason 
I have already alluded to. You run your cheap land against 
the dearer land of Europe; and another advantage in my 
judgment of the business of dairying is, that dairy farmers in 
this country can most profitably engage in competition with 
the farmers of Europe. 
In the first place then you have cheaper lands, and in the 
next place, the cost of transportation of this product is very 
