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complete satisfaction in the realization of the quality of the 

 product that we are taking into our families, there goes on a 

 still further demand for something better, something higher, 

 and it is catering to this demand that this organized effort has 

 been put forth and that we are here with you in an important 

 dairy center of our State to encourage you to study these prob- 

 lems still more and carry your work up to a higher standard, 

 and the reputation of our State as a dairy State and its products • 

 in our markets to a higher degree of perfection. Since the 

 starting of associated dairying in our State there has grown up 

 the great creamery industry, and a wide market for the product 

 of the dairy in the cream form, and we are finding that there 

 is scarcely any limit to the demand for a choice article in this 

 direction. At the present time it may be said that the leading 

 idea in dairying in and throughout New England, is the use of 

 the products of the cow in the cream form in its perfection, 

 and it is a problem that we may study and study closely, how 

 this may be put into the hands of the consumer in a still more 

 perfect condition than at the present time. It is a credit to the 

 intelligence of our dairymen that we have taken the lead in this 

 direction and stand at the front in the great markets of New 

 England. The time is close at hand when the demand for this 

 product and all the products of the cow is going to be still 

 greater than at the present time, and especially so in the form 

 of milk. I am ready to predict that the years will be few that 

 have passed before Massachusetts cities will call upon our dairy- 

 men for a very much larger supply of milk and cream than is 

 now the case, and there is at present a large amount of milk 

 going into Massachusetts. It is to vastly increase in the near 

 future, and with it must be the very highest standard of perfec- 

 tion in order to put that product into the hands of the consumer 

 in the purest, cleanest and most attractive form that is possible. 

 The nearer we can get to putting these products into the hands 

 of the consumer in their absolutely perfect form, the greater 

 will be the profit to the producer, and the greater the demand 

 of the market. We are glad indeed that you show this interest. 

 We wish to encourage the investment of capital to a larger 

 extent in connection with this as one of the branches of our 

 farming. And this reminds me that one of the greates't needs 

 at the present time in connection with our farming operations 



