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to do more good than has been done. Of course I realize that 

 the department is making a great effort to get at this matter 

 in the very best possible way, and they have accomplished won- 

 derful results in the past few years. Along that particular 

 line I think more can be accomplished than a good many of us 

 are aware, and, as I said, one of the most important things we 

 have to do is to get at the people that are producing the undesir- 

 able product, and they have to be reached in some other way 

 than through these meetings. The question is. What is the best 

 way to reach them ? That it seems to me ought to be considered, 

 and of course it is being considered and a solution will be 

 reached in time. 



W. K. Hamlin. 

 I am an officer of both the IVIaine Dairymen's Association and 

 the Maine Creamerymen's Association, and I am sure it does 

 occur to you as it has to me, that the connecting link between 

 these two societies is very weak. Now I am perfectly willing 

 that the idea shall prevail that this link is a weak one if it con- 

 veys the impression to you that there is no strain on that link, 

 no pulling apart between the two societies. I have been trying 

 to think as I sat here what we could say to interest you. We 

 are creamerymen, a few of us, but we do not want to talk to 

 creamerymen, we want to talk to the dairymen, and it seems to 

 me that the most important thing I can impress on your minds 

 today is that we are in harmony with you. We are not organ- 

 ized to make a monopoly, to squeeze you. It seems to me that 

 I am in a position to say that we are working for your interest, 

 perhaps better than you are working for your own interest. 

 But I will own up to you that neither you nor I are doing as 

 well as we know. Now if we will just go to work and not try 

 to make this long jump across the gulf at once, but take the way 

 laid out on Httle steps across, one at a time, and do the work 

 nearest to us, we shall reach a higher plane. Just as fast as 

 we do the nearest thing to us, there will be a little light shining 

 out. Here is something that you can do to make things a little 

 better, and no matter how far you go, there is still the incentive 

 to go a little higher, do a little better, be a little more perfect. 

 So let us, as we go home from here, not try to jump too far at 



