STATE DAIRY ASSOClATIOX, GG9 



We do not know of anj- State that is better situated for finding a 

 market for its produce than is Indiana today. You are here in a city 

 where every kind of goods is manufactured, and you will not have to 

 send your dairy produce so far awaj' in order to find a market for it. 

 Tliere are also a number of lar;,'e cities surrounding Indiana. There are 

 Cincinnati. Louisville and Chicago, and some others. Then you have a 

 good market at home. I wish I had a million farmers to impress it upon 

 them that they have a good market in Indiana, not only for dairy produce 

 l)ut for anything that is raised on the farm. I do not believe that the 

 proportion of farmers here today is very large, for thej' don't look to me 

 like they had milked the cows before they came hei-e this morning. 



President .lohnson: You can't always tell by their looks, Mr. Wilson. 

 For this man's benefit I should like to know how many in the audience 

 have cows at home that they are milking. 



(Three-fourths of the audience voted aye.) 



Mr. ^^'ilson: I declare. That sort of makes me feel good. I did not 

 suppose we had so manj' of that .«ort of people. If this is true I will begin 

 on a different line. When we have our conventions over in Illinois I 

 do not believe we have as many dairy farmers as there are here today. 

 I am glad to say this for Indiana, but sorry to say it for Illinois. But 

 even so, you people are ghid to come and try to get information from the 

 people whom the Secretary has asked to talk to you. 



Our people are interested in cream and milk, and are giving a good 

 deal of attention to the handling of it. but they are not yet living up to 

 their opportunities. I have not had an opportunity to visit any of the 

 large sanitary milk plants in this State, and I understand there is one 

 in your city, and other places over the State. I think everyone should 

 visit these places and see how carefully everything is handled and taken 

 care of. After you see this you will want your cream and milk from 

 there, and I am sure you would drink more milk and eat more butter. 

 If we could have sanitary milk saloons instead of lager beer saloons the 

 country would be a whole lot better off, and the men and women 

 would be better off, and so would boys and girls. There is no 

 other one by-product of the dairy that would be as much good 

 to a community as good, wholesome buttermilk, and if the dairymen 

 and manufacturers of creamery butter would take up the question of 

 supplying saloons that are already established with buttermilk it would 

 be a profitable thing in more ways than one, Mr. President. 



We have been thinking that butter is about the only thing that is of 

 value in the milk. We have learned that there are a great many other 

 things in the milk that are of use and profit. We have the butter-fat, 

 to be sure, to begin with. Then we have the casein, which some of you 

 do not know much about but that it is the part of the milk that is used 



