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standard proposition, but the other point I wanted to make 

 was this,— that a man who feels that he is producing a high 

 grade product is in a position to charge more money for it, 

 and I would consider that a more satisfactory business than 

 dealing in a low grade product. 



Mr. GupTill — I think that the proposition as far as produc- 

 ing a clean wholesome product from healthy, vigorous cows is 

 concerned, is all right, but it is the economic feature that I 

 wanted to bring out. In regard to Mr. Thompson's statement 

 about farmers being business men and conducting their business 

 on business principles, of course we know that every man who 

 has a farm worth $3,500 has got it stocked with a pair of horses 

 which cost him $500, we will say, and if he is in the milk 

 business to a certain extent — and every man ought to be to the 

 extent of ten cows — within bounds there is $500 for the cows. 

 His horses and cows cost him $1,000, and if he has a riding 

 wagon, express wagon and market wagon, as well as harnesses 

 and tools, he has another thousand invested. He has his fur- 

 niture in his house and his dairy appliances, which will cost 

 him from $500 to $750, making $2750, which added to the 

 price of the farm. $3,500, would make $6,250 invested in his 

 farm. Those horses and tools are losing in value every day. 

 As a matter of fact we do not enter into these things. We 

 ought to demand as good a showing as a man who has $6,500 

 invested in a store. The farmers are not insistent enough in 

 their demand. People will say to us that we should get up a 

 little earlier and work a little harder and w^e will make a little 

 more money. As a matter of fact, that is not a proposition 

 for us to consider, ^^^e should work only eight hours, the same 

 as -the man who works in the mill, the carpenter shop, or the 

 blacksmith shop and when food supplies become short some- 

 thing will happen. But we hang to the 15 hour system instead 

 of the 8 hour, and labor becomes scarcer and scarcer. There 

 is no use in producing food at a loss. If you are doing busi- 

 ness, do it on business principles, and insist that you get what 

 should come to you. 



Mr. Smith — Granting the statement that a man who is sell- 

 ing milk for a business should not sell milk much above the 

 state standard, I find in my inspection work that the majority 



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