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can be done by gatherers to prevent freezing by blanketing their 

 loads well and using one or more lanterns among the cans. 



One thought more and I will close. 



Milk — fresh, pure, sanitary; food for babes, food for the 

 sick, food for athletes, the best and most perfect food for all. 

 How shall the people get it in the most perfect condition? 



Along a line of railroad, establish colonies of cows at the most 

 feasible points. Let the bams, yards, store house, milk house 

 and all be most carefully planned and constructed, to give a 

 sanitary, comfortable, convenient, sightly plant. Put a highly 

 educated and trained manager in charge of a suitable number of 

 these colonies. Let everything about the work be done in the 

 most approved and up-to-date manner. Let a day's milk be 

 taken to market on night express trains. Grain from the west 

 would require no carting. Hay could be hauled from the nearby 

 farms and manure hauled back. Keep at the colonies only cows 

 in full milk. Send the young stock and dry cows to the more 

 remote farms. Think about it. 



L. S. Merrill. I have been interested in this paper by Mr. 

 Bradford for quite a number of reasons : First, because of his 

 long experience in such matters and the progress that has been 

 made by the company which he represents. I have been inter- 

 ested because he has always stood, as a man and as a creamery- 

 man, for progressive methods ; because he recognizes the needs 

 of the dairy interests, so far as selling milk or cream to the 

 creameries is concerned. I think every creamery man can say 

 with him that it has been an up-hill road they have been travel- 

 ing, and still they have been able to see progress made all the 

 time. I think we have reason to feel proud of the progress that 

 has been made along the lines of quality in this State, espe- 

 cially during the past ten years. In the last few years, since the 

 sweet cream industry was started, a great work has been done 

 along the line of the care of milk and cream by the average 

 dairyman, by men who are furnishing cream to the creameries, 

 and there is a work still further to be done. The next progres- 

 sive move, as I indicated yesterday, must be better products, 

 and it is practical improvement that the creamerymen stand for, 

 and that the Department of Agriculture stands for. We hope 

 to bring to the farmers, the dairymen of the State, practical 



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