No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 82^ 



ward. I fail to see why the individual dairyman or the dairymen as 

 an organization should in anyway be expected to assume this 

 work. I fail to see any reason why the dairy interests of the State 

 should not be considered in substantially the same way as the gen- 

 eral agricultural interests. If any one voluntarily takes it up they 

 take it up without authority, and it seems to me that some one would 

 have to do a lot of hard work for the honor, with a considerable ex- 

 pense, which certainly the treasury of this organization, if the pre- 

 liminary report be correct, is hardly in a position to assume. There 

 was reported a balance of two dollars in the treasury. So, in brief, 

 my feeling is, individually, that the Commission ought to take up 

 the dairy interests of the State in substantially the same way as 

 it has taken up the general agricultural interests of the State. The 

 dairy exhibit should have the sanction of the State, be under the 

 authority of the State as certainly as the agricultural exhibit. 



MR. SUSENDORF: In sending the butter you really need some 

 one to look after it. Quite a few entries will be made individually 

 from Pennsylvania. There are a number of creamerymen who will 

 send butter there and also dairymen. My experience at the World's 

 Fair, Chicago, was that when no one was sent in charge of the ma- 

 terial it stood about and was delivered in poor condition. With the 

 exhibit that took all the honors, there was a superintendent on hand 

 to look after it. A number of states are making arrangements to 

 have their butter consigned and all sent to one central place, and 

 sent to St. Louis in a refrigerator car. Unless you make arrange- 

 ments with some one to look after it in this way you Mill have a poor 

 display. 



A Member: If the State is going to make an exhibit it ought to 

 be a representative exhibit. As stated by Colonel Woodward, 

 the general impression is that the dairy interests do not need ad- 

 vertising. You will find that nu^n making the best brands of but- 

 ter in Pennsylvania will not take any interest in this matter. They 

 have all the trade they want. Advertising will not help trade, but 

 that is the very butter that ought to be represented there. Colonel 

 Woodward as head of the Department of Agricultural Exhibits, 

 will want to get a representation of the very finest products of the 

 State, and it seems to me that the Commission ought to be as much 

 in favor of, and as much determined that the butter interests of the 

 State should be represented in the same way. I do not think that 

 can be done in an}' other way than by the Commission finding the 

 best butter men and seeing that exhibits are made from this class. 

 I exhibited butter at the Chicago Exhibition and nearly all was 

 scored ''off flavor," I suppose this was because of delay at the ex- 

 press station, 



