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dustrj and education, received through their dairy schools and proper 

 legislation , produce an article just as good as ours and put it into 

 our market as cheap if not cheaper than we can put it there under 

 our present arrangement. This should impress us with the fact that 

 something is needed on our part. We need organization of this 

 kind wliere we can come together and discuss the advisability of new 

 methods or the fuUilment of present methods. For my part I think 

 we need better legislation along these lines. First, the farmers and 

 dairymen themselvevs must consider well this important question of 

 what is needed to make dairying a success. Then perhaps they 

 will see the advisability of appropriating a sum of money to build and 

 maintain a dairy school at our State College. The resolution intro- 

 duced at our local institutes last year for such an appropriation was 

 adopted by a very flattering majority. But when the Legislature 

 did finally pass the appropriation bill, the Governor saw fit to veto 

 it. If he could have seen it in the proper light, perhaps the result 

 would have been otherwise. This ijroves to us how important it is 

 to see that the right kind of men are sent to our next legislature, 

 those who will not put too much money into such things as monu- 

 ments, but put it to more urgent demands. For instance, money 

 could be given for butter inspection, in order to prevent the reprint- 

 ing of butter to suit the occasion. Some of our dishonest dealers, 

 if I may be permitted to call them, will imitate any fancy print that 

 may be desired. 



In Philadelphia market we have a brand of butter of good reputa- 

 tion, made in Lancaster county, and in order to sell packed goods a 

 dealer will print it up without any compunction of conscience in 

 exact imitation of the above mentioned brand; why I really found an 

 exact imitated one-half pound print of my own butter, which was 

 nothing more than "oleo." Such. proceedings are not the exception 

 either. 



When we find the western solid packed butter printed up into such 

 forms as E. D. B. B. and S. S., certainly there must be some legisla- 

 tion enacted along this line. As Governor Hoard says in a late issue 

 of his valuable paper, that the farmers of Pennsylvania have been 

 too indifferent to their dairj- education; they have not kept an active 

 dairy association in their midst to vitalize and stimulate thought 

 and practice on this subject. They could not see that it was worth 

 considerable sacrifice on their part to support such an association, 

 and so they let their old association die out. 



This new one was organized largely by the efforts of Prof. Hay- 

 ward, our present secretary. Surely every dairyman of this State 

 should have made it a point to be here. Every creamery and cheese 

 factory should at least have selected a delegate to represent them 



