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to be secured. On you, in the final analyses, must health 

 officials, systems, and inspectors rely for results, and cities and 

 towns for pure milk. 



In the last annual report of an international committee on 

 dairy farm inspection is the following interesting paragraph : 

 "This committee believes that the production of a clean and 

 reasonably safe milk is a comparatively simple process, easily 

 within the reach of all careful dairymen, if paid a price sufficient 

 to induce them to become genuinely interested in its production." 

 From this we gather that if the financial cooperation of the con- 

 sumers can be secured, the dairyman will become more interested 

 in the production of a better milk. Lack of interest has relegated 

 dairying to the position of a side issue on too many natural dairy 

 farms, to the detriment of both the farms and the quality of 

 milk produced there. The average dairy farmer's time in bed 

 just before he gets up in the morning is not, I fear, devoted to 

 plans for the dairy, but rather is taken up with thoughts of the 

 drawing of logs, the making of maple sirup and other works in 

 season. 



When the general public begins to discriminate in the pur- 

 chase of its daily supply of milk, it is high time that dairymen 

 interested in the future prosperity of their business recognize 

 this tendency, and put themselves in position to meet this now 

 well-defined movement for better milk. That consumers are 

 beginning thus to discriminate must be conceded if the con- 

 stantly increasing call from them regarding the chemical and 

 bacteriological analyses of their supply is any criterion. And 

 we find this to be the condition. This situation holds something 

 of interest for the wide-awake dairyman because the success 

 of his business depends upon how intelligently he interprets and 

 meets these demands. 



From facts at hand it would seem that the cooperation of the 

 consumer is slowly but surely coming. You say, and I agree, 

 that better milk can not be had without a better knowledge 

 equally on the part of producer, transportation agency, dealers 

 and consumer, of those factors which affect its purity and keep- 

 ing qualities. 



Let us take up briefly a few of the factors which determine 

 quality in milk and are within the influence of the producer to 

 control, for I believe that they are both easily understood and 



