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bread, and coffee, with a liberal allowance of good cheese, for 

 breakfast, and I will guarantee that you can do as big a fore- 

 noon's work as on a whole lot of pork, and you will feel a great 

 deal better in the long run. Of course, a certain amount of fat 

 is good. 



You talk about a well-balanced ration for your cattle and 

 poultry, and by what I hear you seem to think it is very essential 

 to have this kind of a ration. Now, are they of so much more 

 account than we? How you would pity any of them if you 

 saw them suffering from over-feeding or drinking, as many 

 of us poor humans do ! 



Now as to the commercial end of your cheese. My firm 

 carries as good cheese, both plain and sage, as there is made. 

 We have to charge 15 1-2 to 16 1-2 cents per pound for it. My 

 grocers say to me, "I must get 20 cents for it in order to live," 

 and they go slow ; but if any of them get hold of any dairy 

 cheese, they sell it readily for 25 cents. Doesn't this speak well 

 for the dairy cheese? We do get a very few dairy cheese from 

 New Hampshire. 



A word Regarding your milk and cream exhibit. It is a step 

 in the right direction. Starting at the head, if you have not 

 followed the instruction of my friend Prof. Merrill and brushed 

 the dirt oft" your cows and have not been fussy whether filth got 

 into the pails or not. Prof. Weld will find it and will call it by 

 its proper name, not "barny," as we do sometimes. It is not 

 the barn we taste, but the filth that comes off the dirty cows. 



I am in favor of high-priced milk. Let's pay enough for it 

 so that the farmer can get good intelligent help to milk and care 

 for his cows. If we have to cut out our beer and our cigars, 

 we will but gain by having good, clean milk. 



