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Now may I refer you to one other thing here, perhaps a 

 Httle out of the way, but I do this for a special purpose. We 

 have been told by the experiment stations that the skim milk 

 that comes from our butter making industry is, from the 

 standpoint of food, almost as valuable as the new milk. So 

 far as the nutritive quality is concerned, a skim milk is very 

 valuable, and it has been to a very large extent a waste 

 product, and one of the wants of our dairymen at the present 

 time is a means of making use of this waste product so that 

 they may get some proper return for it. Now I want to say 

 in the presence of this company, and to refer to one thing 

 which possibly may be of some value in some sections of the 

 State. There has been recently invented a method by which 

 this skim milk can be made use of in unlimited quantity. The 

 method in brief is to dry the skim milk, making a powder of 

 it, which can then be shipped all over the world just the same 

 as you can ship flour. It is a new process and apparently a 

 very successful one. I have been for some time trying to 

 find a place where this could be tried in Connecticut. I have 

 been unable to do so because I cannot find skim milk enough. 

 If any of you can find a place where skim milk can be obtained 

 in large quantities, I think there is a possibility of your get- 

 ting a large return through this suggestion I have in mind. 

 If any of you know where a large amount of skim milk can 

 be obtained I wish you would communicate with me and let 

 us see what can be done in the matter. That is not particu- 

 larly a part of the subject I have to consider this afternoon, 

 but I have mentioned this because I consider it' one of the 

 duties of the Storrs Experiment Station to discover, if pos- 

 sible, some of these wants, and point them out to you so you 

 can make use of them. If we can show you any place or any 

 way where you can improve your dairying, or show you any 

 method by which you can get a return from what are now 

 waste products, we shall have done more for Connecticut 

 farming than in almost any other way. 



With the great New York market within a stone's throw 

 almost of our Connecticut farms, there is an unlimited market 

 for a great variety of dairy products which Connecticut dairy- 

 men have never touched or im.proved. That, however, is not 

 the particular subject which I ought to dwell upon. The 

 Storrs Experiment Station, naturally enough, in developing 



