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best is sought after. There is hardly any other trade or pro- 

 fession that demands so many requisites in one man as dairying. 

 So when we know that for success in dairying we are entirely 

 dependent on the milker's skill and good will, it is not difhcult 

 to see that the proper man is indispensable. 



To show that milk inspection should be carried on and is of 

 great value, let us look at the following facts, "in the country 

 as a whole, up to last year there were 500 ei)idemics of disease 

 in 35 years. 317 of these epidemics were of typhoid, and 

 typhoid is essentially a country chsease, resulting from poor 

 sanitation and flies and general filthiness around a farm. 125 

 of these epidemics were from scarlet fever and 58 from diph- 

 theria, and each one of these was traceable directly to the 

 milk." That shows that milk is a very sensitive carrier of dis- 

 ease and epidemics anywhere may be traced to the milk. This 

 may come about not directly from the milk itself, but because 

 of the germs in the milk ; that is, the milk does not produce the 

 disease but the germs in the milk do. A short and perfect rule 

 that can be applied to every producer of milk is that the milk 

 should be kept clean and cold. If that motto is followed out to 

 the letter a man will have no trouble whatever in finding a mar- 

 keti for his milk. The fact that cream at the National Dairy 

 Exposition at Chicago in 1906, which was put into cold storage 

 ^t 33 degrees F. after it was exhibited, kept sweet and palatable 

 for seven weeks, shows that if milk or cream is clean and cold 

 it will keep wholesome for a long time. I have made a chart 

 which I have here, to show that the cost of the actual digest- 

 ible dry matter in milk is not anywhere near as much as the 

 cost of the actual digestible dry matter in other articles ot food. 

 Of course the actual amount of dry matter in a food is what 

 we should pay for when we buy a food. Too often we pay too 

 much for the name of the article, and not enough for the actual 

 iood value in it. 



