“Moreover we shouldn’t find within another year any member of this club paying from twelve to fourteen cents a pound for salt pork, or sixteen cents a pound for lard, or twenty-five cents a pound for bacon, when it would almost pay every man in the club to keep pigs for the dressing alone. Our forefathers would no more have thought of getting along without a pig than they would a well. No more should we. The packers have made it easy for us to buy rather than raise. So does everyone else who wants our money. That’s the big temptation which has been our undoing--this biting to the bait of the easiest way. It’s nothing but a new form of taxation which we have been too indifferent to throw off, until now we have the habit and think we can’t. It’s a pretty safe guess that the easiest way is never the profitable way in anything. We’ve tried the other with poor results; now let’s try the new way--the pioneer way.” The question of raising beef and lamb, however, was not quite so general a one, as it took more capital. However, we found some twenty men who were willing to undertake the experiment to an extent which made it seem worth while for the rest of the club to help finance the undertaking. It resulted in the purchase of a Dorset ram and a good Holstein bull. A member was found who was willing to care for the animals in return for the free use of them himself. In addition he was allowed to charge a nominal fee which should cover the interest of the money invested by the club. This was in February, and a few weeks later with the stock fully subscribed we began our second campaign. As Holt made clear in a talk to the club this company was not in and of itself any royal road to fortune. It was no short cut to success.