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hold of it with earnestness. I am perfectly willing to part with 

 a dollar if I could have this work done; I could earn a dollar 

 in the time it would take to do it. Then, again, the results 

 would not be worth much to me if every individual man took 

 his own sample. Some of them who were perfectly honest and 

 sincere would know but little about how to do the work. 



Speaking of the sanitary conditions of the stables, the people 

 who run the condensed milk factory at Newport called me in 

 last year and said, "What are you doing, Mr, Commissioner? 

 The law says you shall inquire into the systems and the methods 

 of butter making. We employ one man all the time to visit 

 every stable and inquire into the sanitary conditions of the tie- 

 up, and investigate the feed and the care of the cow. What 

 is the whole great State of Maine doing?" When the pure food 

 law first went into effect I had a consultation with Prof. Woods 

 and we agreed that a system of education should be carried on, 

 that we would educate the people along this line of work and 

 when education ceased then the law would be put into force. 

 There is something to be expected of us every year, in the way 

 of a purer and better product, just as much from the farmer as 

 from the commercial man. 



CLEANER MILK— WHY— HOW. 



By Dr. G. M. Whitakkr, Dairy Division, U. S. Department of 



Agriculture. 



The thought now most prominent in my mind does not 

 relate to dairying but to the magnitude of our nation and its 

 wonderful resources. Your invitation to address this meeting 

 reached me in the new State of Oklahoma, while I was observ- 

 ing with amazement the miraculous growth and reflecting upon 

 its tremendous future possibilities. Oklahoma City, its leading 

 municipality, has no suggestion of crudeness or pioneer life — 

 but rather has the earmarks of a city that has been growing 

 for 100 or more years ; a city that would compare favorably in 

 every respect with any New England city. And yet all of its 

 business, educational, social and religious development has 

 sprung up from the bare prairie in eighteen short years. 



