Thirty-sixth Annual Convention 911 



This is the reason that every time you hear men or women 

 discuss milk from the platform they all proclaim it dirty milk. 

 This has heeu done to such an extent that the consumer to-day 

 actually believes that all milk is dirty. He therefore refuses to 

 pay more for it than he does now, and you cannot hlanio him. 

 Is it any wonder then that some of our college professors even, 

 have said that under present conditions a man is a fool to produce 

 clean milk. 



Let us look at this from the viewpoint of a high-grade dairy- 

 man, the man who appreciates the value of a clean bam with 

 plenty of air space, plenty of light and sunshine, good ventila- 

 tion and tuberculin tested cows. What inducement is oifered 

 this man to put forth special etforts, spend money and do the 

 thousand and one things that go with producing a high-grade milk 

 under present conditions. 



During the last ten years I have heard a great many scientific, 

 and no doubt conscientious men, discuss milk from the platform, 

 but never have I heard a man say to the dairymen " You have 

 done well. You are sending to the city to-day better milk than 

 you ever sent before. Every year has been an improvement. Go 

 ahead and we will say to the consumer, the milk supply is improv- 

 ing. It is better than it was last year or the year before, but it 

 will never be better than it is now until you pay for it in just pro- 

 portion to its value as a food ; at a price and on a scale that will 

 place a premium on hard work and honest effort as against dirt 

 and shiftlessness." 



Many think that the farmer does not want to be clean, that he 

 enjoys being a producer of dirty milk ; but I know that the aver- 

 age dairyman is just as anxious and just as willing to make his 

 place of business neat and clean, as far as possible, as the average 

 grocer, hardware man, or dry goods merchant, providing the 

 profits from his business make him able to do so. 



I think that the same condition exists in regard to eliminating 

 tuberculosis from the herds of this state. Many think that the 

 dairyman does not realize his danger by having diseased animals 

 or he would get rid of them ; but I believe he never will care to 

 be more free from reacting animals than he now is, until the 

 produce of those animals is worth more on the market than the 



