l86 AGRICULTURE OF :\IAINE. 



Mr. McIntirk: May I say a word? This is not getting after 

 anyone. it is just the conditions. You hstened to Mr. Adams 

 ni his report, and to our President in his address, and we got 

 a little idea why we are having an increase ; it is because things 

 are going a little different. I want to call your attention to 

 this fact: For years, in any town or city, if an effort has 

 been made to raise the price of milk one cent a quart there 

 would be the greatest howl you ever heard and yet, these same 

 people will go to the market and pay three or four times as 

 much for anything they want there. It is necessary for us to 

 get out and make our wants known. People can pay a cent 

 more for milk as well as for anything else ; they do not need it 

 all for the moving pictures. 



Dr. Woods : There is not one person in twenty-five who 

 regards milk as a food and knows its nutritive value. More 

 than twenty years ago the Experiment Station made experi- 

 ments and showed facts that have never been followed up by 

 the dairymen. I issued a bulletin in which it was shown that 

 the free use of milk in a dietary which we tried out at the 

 University, without the students knowing it at all, resulted in a 

 reduction in the cost of the dietary. The protein in beef was 

 replaced in milk ; milk has a wonderful nutritive value, and the 

 reason a woman resents paying more for milk is, that she does 

 not believe the milk has nutritive value while the beef has. 

 If you have an oyster stew made of oysters and skim-milk, the 

 nutritive value is more dependent upon the skim-milk than 

 upon the oysters. The only way we can bring about the desired 

 end is to educate the public up to the idea that when they buy 

 milk they are not buying drink but are buying food, and that 

 is the greatest place to make our attack today. The consumer 

 must understand that when he is buying milk he has bought 

 food and not something like water. 



Mr. Guptill: I certainly think everj^body ought to hear 

 what is going on now, for it is very interesting. I want to say 

 a word. There is an organization known as "The Packers," 

 who are interested in having meat used in place of milk; inter- 

 ested in having oleo used in place of butter, and you will hear 

 the continual cry of, "Dirty milk." Now nobody wants to eat 

 dirty milk, but I don't believe it ever killed anvone. I wa^? 

 brought up on a farm and I presume I drank milk that had 



