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500,000 cubic centimeters of bacteria, and I lived through it 

 and I think the bones of those Httle bacteria did me good ; but 

 dirty milk is unpleasant to the palate if it doesn't kill anyone. 

 I, for one, am tired of this continual harping of the Board of 

 Health. You will see from that card what progress we are 

 making in our dairy interests, and then they tell what beautiful 

 chances there are for agriculture down here. Every Board of 

 Health is calling for better rnilk. All right ; but we ought to 

 come back to the source from which that arises. You have got 

 to understand where the animus is. They are trying to sell 

 more meat and more oleo. I recommend that you study the 

 exact situation of Boards of Health in Maine ; what they are 

 for and what they should do, and carry that matter to the 

 legislature. 



Mr. Holston : I want to make this statement, that I agree 

 with everything Mr. Mclntire has said. I believe that ninety 

 per cent of the dairymen here, if they know the facts of the 

 case and figure out to find the cost of their product, will come 

 to the same conclusion to which Mr. Mclntire has come. I 

 think there are others who will bear out my statement, and it 

 seems to me it is time the dairymen of Maine should be getting 

 together and doing something. We are now getting stingy 

 prices, even if they are some better than before. 



Now, I want to bring up the case of a man we ran across the 

 other day who is sending his cream to the creamery. He told 

 me that a collector comes to his house ; that he is never less 

 than two days on the road, and that the price paid for deliver- 

 ing the butter-fat is seven cents a pound for every pound he 

 sends to the creamery ; so, instead of getting the forty-one 

 cents that the man on the railroad is getting, he is cut down to 

 thirty-four cents. I do not know how many of you are situated 

 like that, but if the fellows who are living on the railroads are 

 not getting by, what is the man going to do who has to pay 

 seven cents more for a long haul? I think that card on the 

 wall will tell you what they are going to do and what they are 

 doing. 



President Tucker : This is certainly a vital question to us 

 all. 



