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ably infer that it is a proper subject to receive much attention 

 from our state experiment stations ; and it is also fitting that 

 dairying should receive considerable attention from the National 

 Department of Agriculture. You may be interested to know 

 what the Department, through its dairy division, is doing for the 

 dairymen of this country, but in the closing half hour of the last 

 session of this convention there is hardly time for me to go into 

 details. I can say in brief that national power can do many 

 things which it is impossible for states to do. For instance, 

 suppose we want to know something about the composition of 

 the butter that is found for sale in dififerent markets, Chicago, 

 St. Louis, Boston, Providence, Philadelphia. No one state 

 could undertake that, but the national government can get sam- 

 ples from all of these different markets, can analyze them and 

 tabulate the results, and publish a very important and useful 

 bulletin on the composition of butter. Again, the national gov- 

 ernment can study the foreign markets, examine the butters 

 found therein, and make suggestions and give information along 

 these lines. The department can also do work in co-operation 

 with state experiment stations, in studying problems that are of 

 more than local importance and really belong to a group of states 

 or a section of the country. The national department has 

 recently issued a valuable bulletin on the sale of milk in the 

 large cities of the country, including a description of the meth- 

 ods of distribution all the way from Boston to San Francisco. 



Up to this point I have been speaking of the educational work 

 of the National Dairy Division. It does, in addition to that, 

 work of a different nature. At your meeting a year ago you 

 passed this resolution : "Resolved, That renovated butter is 

 second only to colored oleomargarine as a counterfeit and fraud- 

 ulent competitor of all genuine fresh butter, and should be sub- 

 jected to similar legal restrictions. The provisions for taxing and 

 stamping renovated butter included in the so-called Grout bill 

 are approved and the regulations for identifying this article 

 when sold, which have been made by the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture, are fully commended. That officer is respectfully urged 

 to require strict compliance with those regulations." 



I can say that your request has been faithfully complied with ; 

 not that the law has been perfectly enforced, there is nothing 



