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Show DMItY ANI) POULTRY. NTr.itBSTiNn cHArTnH port I OUII I1UIIAL HliAUBHS. I ttow Sneeeaafal rntmi-rt IlirvU Ttil Depart mitt ef Hi IVtrm A tew lint to lh I1.K Urm Staiek ami I oultrr lh Mi. I.ni li.lf.ii.4n. In an addrsvs given before the State I Dairymen ! Association at New Haven, I (lovernor Hoard dealt with the modern aspect! of dairying aa compared with thoso which had governed the Industry In bygone days In the course of hla remarks, he said Tho last third of n century mark nn epoch In ths progress ot the dairy In-diutry In-diutry to a certain extent In all parts of tho world There la something peculiar pe-culiar about this Industry In It effect on tha men who follow It Intelligently They stand foremost In tho ranks ot agriculture. In tba point of Intcllectuil conquest Dairying calls for tho best Judgment and work In the tlllago ot tho soil and tho growing of graas nnd train It calls for special kuowludgo I In the caro nnd ban citing of thosa crops. In order that they may Impart their highest food value It call! for n special study lu the principle nnd art ot animal feeding, so that tho cow may ho given n rnilon I fitted to tho functional work tho hns i In band nnd our ulghost profit. It calls for a ipiilnt Judgment In tha matter I of constructing barns, stable silos, yards and drinking place, tor wo nra denting with a high order ot aulmal life. Herein Is valuable nlso a knowledge knowl-edge of farm sanitation what It principles, prin-ciples, limitations, and result nra Wo are responilblo tor the oiowdlnn together to-gether of larre numbers of cows, and we must hold ourselves responsible to them, and tho public whoso food they yield, for as ported and heilthtul a modo of llfo ni It Ii poislblo for ui to provide for them It calls for a knowl-edga knowl-edga of tho laws of reproduction, whereby we may make uso of the force of nnturo to tho manifest Increase ot dnlry power In our cattle Wo hnvo no right to sit still or net Indifferently on this question, Tho caws of u stnte aro what Its dairy farmer hnvo mnde No other branch of agriculture Is ns socialistic as dairying, for It Is organised or-ganised very greatly nil over tho land Into cheesa factories nnd croamcrlrs Here, again, Is a special endowment ot sound senso required The moment such organization tnkes plnco, tho farmer finds himself no longer n producer, but a manufacturer. Ho must learn how to co-opcrata with hla fellow farmers, according to tho lawa of business Ho must study tho finer economics of man- 1 ufacturlng Ho Is to bo tho creator of ono of tha finest foods on earth, ' which, llko Caesar's wife, "must ba above suspicion," |