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milk myself. I know there are firms doing business in New York 

 that when they get out of certified milk they have the slips ready and 

 they put them right onto bottles of milk that never came from any 

 certified farm in the world. But I know one man who furnishes pure, 

 sanitary cream, and he not only puts a seal on, but he puts the date 

 on the seal. He was recently asked to change the dates on the bottles 

 so they could sell yesterday's cream for to-day's, but he would have 

 none of it. 



Secretary Davis. — Does it improve pure cream to pasteurize it? 



Mr. Moldenhauer. — Yes, but don't let anybody tell you you can 

 make sour cream sweet; you cannot; but there is a way you can improve 

 it. You can take your cream and mix it with six or seven times its 

 quantity of absolutely sweet milk, run it through your separator again 

 and then pasteurize it afterwards. It improves the flavor, and it is not 

 sour. Pasteurization does a good deal for the flavor. I do not mean 

 to say if you have strong milk you can knock that out, but you can 

 improve it. It will do a great deal towards improving a bad flavor. 



President Aitken. — If there are no more questions to be asked we 

 will go on to the next subject to be discussed, "Cheaper Production of 

 Milk." I am told the speaker will talk on that and its relation to 

 poultry. 



Henry Van Dresser. — In a multitude of counsel there is safety. That 

 is just as true to-day as it was when Solomon made the remark. Here 

 to-day is a multitude of counsel, and our interests are varied. The 

 subject given to me was how to produce cheap milk, but they have 

 changed the subject and want me to talk a little while on poultry as 

 an adjunct to the dairy. 



I am prepared to say that the people of this and other States are 

 laboring under a great disadvantage. With their dairy they could just 

 as well put in $1,000 and over with poultry. I have a poultry plant at 

 home. I have been in the business ten years. When my brother 

 and I first began our attempt to pay for the farm we were so busy 

 the poultry was ignored, but I became very much interested in a little 

 boy who lived about three miles from our place who had a great love 

 for domestic animals, and especially for poultry, and about ten years 

 ago, to please the boy, I purchased an incubator with 200 eggs and 

 started into business in a small way, and we get a larger product to-day 

 from the hens than we do from the dairy. I am so sorry my attention 

 was not drawn to this matter earlier. I have not come here to mislead 

 you, friends; I have come to do you good, and I want to say to you 

 that we have so developed the egg production in seven years that 

 950 hens in one house last year produced 201 eggs per hen upon an 

 average. We had $>\.">0ii invested in poultry, and the sales amounted to 

 over $10,000 upon a two hundred acre farm. 



I want to say to you, my friends, I was thirty-three years of age 

 before I knew I was on earth for a purpose. I had a misconception of 

 things; I thought I was born because I could not help it, and that I 

 would die for the same cause. 



