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of the Commonwealth. In cultivating the acquaintance and friendship of such 

 inquiring correspondents, we would in most cases learn that we were but 

 adding strength and solidity to our already great corner-stone of improved 

 dairying, and increased incomes for the representatives of that industry. The 

 expenditure would be wise and the results beneficent. Advertising the dairying 

 resources of Pennsylvania would be money judiciously expended, and a guar- 

 antee for a greater and more successful future development. 



ADVANCEMENT AND PROGRESS IN DAIRYING. 



The Dairy and Food Division of the Department of Agriculture believes in 

 fostering a community of interests, and is therefore happy to acknowledge the 

 good that is being done in Pennsylvania by such friendly allies as the Penn- 

 sylvania Dairy Union, the Pennsylvania Livestock Breeders' Association, 

 State Livestock Sanitary Board and other organizations interested in kindred 

 subjects. For their continued support, co-operation and encouragement, spe- 

 cial acknowledgments are due and are hereby tendered. 



While it is true that the more progressive and modern milk producers desire 

 additional legislation to improve the dairy supplies of the Commonwealth, there 

 are others who have strongly opposed compulsory laws and their enactment. 

 As a result, some of the measures suggested at various periods have been 

 defeated, and must await the legislative session of 1909 before they can be 

 revived, reconsidered and enacted into laws for the benefit of the people. 



The average dairyman has now a more comprehensive grasp upon certain 

 of the fundamentals of dairying than ever before; he knows far more about 

 feeding standards, rations, and the home-growing of feeding stuff than at 

 any previous period; but with all of this added knowledge, there is room for 

 further improvement, such as will surely enhance the interests of the Penn- 

 sylvania dairymen and farmers generally. An evolution is in progress, and 

 as we are free to acknowledge, science has taken forward steps that a few 

 years ago was regarded as only visionary and utterly impracticable. 



It is not improbable that at some far distant day, the work of the Dairy and 

 Food Division may be confined to dairy work solely to meet the new con- 

 ditions that will surely come. 



IMPROVED DAIRYING IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



Emerson says, "If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, 

 or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in 

 the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." 



It is this effort on the part of many who have a real, genuine interest in 

 dairy researches that is responsible for the changed conditions that surround 

 to-day many successful dairy farms and their production. There is a new era 

 of progress before the people, and with the present prosperity of the country, 

 all channels of trade feel the renewed pulse of activity, and the consequent 

 demand for a better grade of food supplies of all descriptions. 



The producers of Pennsylvania have been correspondingly benefitted, and to- 

 day, there are scores of butter manufacturers throughout Pennsylvania who 

 have adopted these new and improved methods, with the result that they are 

 commanding large prices for their butter and cream, while the demand is 

 greater than the supply. There are butter makers in Southern Pennsylvania 

 who have fixed yearly contracts for all the butter they can furnish, at prices 

 much above the normal quotations; this is owing to the exceptional quality of 

 the butter they furnish. There are neighbors who could imitate, but they lack 

 the spirit and ambition that is a requisite to success in the business. 



Attention is called to this extreme variation in values merely to show what 

 progressive dairying has done, and to drop a hint to those who have the 

 splendid opportunities for following the examples cited. 



PUBLISHING RESULTS OF MILK ANALYSES. 



One of the benefits accruing from the general and extensive examination 

 that was made into the milk supply of Pennsylvania during 1907, was the pub- 

 licity that was given to the names of those who supplied their patrons with 

 good milk, as well as those of dealers and others Avho were arrested and fined 

 for the sale of adulterated milk and cream. The last named list was com- 

 paratively small, much to the satisfaction of the pure food officials and the 

 public. 



The honest dealers were exceedingly glad to have the public know what 

 kind of milk they were selling. It was therefore decided that the lists of 

 samples, names from whom obtained and the results of the analyses should 

 be published in the newspapers of the localities in which the samples were 

 obtained by the sworn agents of the Bureau. This list was promptly mailed 

 to the leading newspapers in the counties represented in the list of samples 

 analyzed, and their publication followed without delay. In some cases such 

 reports were given special *splay, while editorial comments of a most favor- 

 able character almost invariably followed. 



