VERMONT DAIRYMEN S ASSOCIATION. 29 



"AMERICAN DAIRY PRODUCTS AT THE PARIS EX- 

 POSITION, 1900." 



Henry E. Alvord, Washing-ton, D. C, 

 Chief of Dairy Division. 



Mr. Preside nf, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



It is my duty as well as my pleasure to give expression to 

 the greeting which I bring from the Secretary of Agriculture 

 to this Association and this Convention. Secretary Wilson 

 firmly believes that the farmers and dairymen of this country 

 should come together, confer and co-operate for the purpose 

 of improving and advancing their interests. Meetings of this 

 sort, therefore, are always interesting to him, and he sends 

 his best wishes in this case as he always does to Associations 

 of this kind. His instructions to all who are serving under 

 him in the United States Department of Agriculture are to do 

 all they can to assist and encourage organizations for mutual 

 benefit, of this character, associations of farmers of every 

 kind, dairymen included, in all parts of the country. 



It is always a pleasure to me to be able to leave my duties at 

 Washington long enough to meet with representative men and 

 women, from the farms of the country in conventions of this 

 sort, and is particularly a pleasure to me to come back so near 

 to the place of my birth — to a neighborhood with which I was 

 entirely familiar in my boyhood and to meet the people, many 

 of whom I have met before on similar and other occasions. 



It is the conviction of those who have studied the dairying 

 of this country for the last few years, that although at the 

 present time we furnish a better market for our dairy products 

 than can be found elsewhere in the world, and although most 

 of the time for the several years past our home markets have 

 been better than any foreign markets, yet it is probable that 

 the time is not far distant when we shall have need to extend 

 the markets for our dairy products. 



We are all familiar with the rapid increase in agricultural 

 production, in the export of the agricultural products of this 

 country to the various parts of the world, and the enormous 

 trade which is being built up in the products of the American 

 farm in all quarters of the globe; and there is every reason to 

 believe that among those exports in the near future, dairy pro- 



