WHAT THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE MEMBERS CAN DO TO 

 ENSURE A PURE MILK SUPPLY. 



C. C. James, Deputy Minister of Agriculture for Ontario, in an ad- 

 dress before the Dairymen's Convention, held at London in January 

 last, placed special emphasis upon the necessity for pure milk, and in 

 the course of his remarks referred in most hopeful terms to the possibil- 

 ity of furthering the interests of the campaign for a pure milk supply 

 through the Women's Institutes. A portion of his remarks are given 

 below : — 



"Let me tell you that the first genuine ray of hope I have seen in 

 connection with this work came into this question, so far as I am con- 

 cerned, in the month of December, when I saw gathered at the Agricul- 

 tural College, 400 or 500 women from the farms of the Province of On- 

 tario. It was the most inspiring convention I ever saw, and the most 

 interesting audience I ever addressed. Just picture to yourself a room 

 like this packed to the doors with women from the farms of our Pro- 

 vince, and every woman with her pencil and note-book, taking notes 

 of what was going on. I said to myself as I sat there and looked 

 at them, 'We are at last getting a grip such as we never had before 

 on the agricultural community of this country.' When five hundred 

 women from all parts of Ontario will come from the farm homes 

 to a convention of that kind, meaning business, and to take up questions 

 of vital importance to the agriculturists of this country, there is hope that 

 we are at last going to do something, and that we are going to begin at 

 the right source. The women of this country can do what the men cannot 

 do, and they will make the men of this country do what they would not 

 otherwise do. If the farmers' wives and daughters tell the farmers that 

 they have got to put their stables in a clean condition ; that they have to 

 carry on their work in a clean way ; that they have to keep their utensils 

 in a clean manner and send the milk to the cheese factory in a clean 

 state; take my word for it, it will be done. We have at last 

 got our foot into the farmers' home, and until you can revolutionize the 

 farm home life of this country there is not much hope of permanent suc- 

 cess. It is all very well for the farmers to leave home and come to Lon- 

 don or Ottawa for a few days' or a week's holiday, have a pretty good 

 time listening to the speeches, and then go back again and perhaps not 

 be able to tell very much of what went on, except that they heard some 

 good songs, and had a good time. But that is not what is going to revo- 

 lutionize this country. You have to send men home with the determination 

 that they are going to clean up and do things better than they ever did 

 before The centre of the farm work of this country is not on the front 

 concession or on the back road ; it is not out in the stable or in the 

 fields, but it is right in the home where the farmer lives; and if we can 

 only start within the four walls of that home we will accomplish a great 

 deal more than we have been able to do through conventions or dairy 

 schools or anything else. If we can deliver the gospel of cleanliness in 

 the farm homes of this country there is hope of doing something. 



