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turnips, cabbage, and the like tend to injure the flavor and the 

 odor of milk ; hence they are to be avoided. 



In closing, let me say that three simple rules will give us high- 

 grade milk; healthy cows, clean men, prompt cooling. I believe 

 the demand for better milk has come to stay and also that in its 

 production one intelligent man who knows how is of more value 

 in a dairy than are two men who will not take the trouble to 

 learn how, but depend upon a list of regulations covering the 

 side of the barn to guide them. Let us not forget that the 

 domestication of animals gave man his first security from hun- 

 ger and that dairying in this country is a great industry. The 

 census of 1909 valued the annual dairy product in the United 

 States at very close to $600,000,000. In 191 2 the value of all the 

 gold taken from the mines of all the world was less than $500,- 

 000,000. Gold can be taken from the mine but once. The 

 $600,000,000 represents annual production and there is the cow 

 left. 



