VERMONT DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 33 



sample our butter and cheese there and probably milk and 

 cream from this country also. 



I was requested yesterday before I left Washington, to say 

 to this meeting - that among" the other articles which this corn 

 kitchen will serve to the public at the Paris Exposition, will 

 be corn griddle cakes; and the management of this kitchen, 

 which is to be under the control of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, would like some good Vermont maple sugar. The 

 Department is ready to receive proposals from Vermont to con- 

 tribute maple sugar to be used in this way. 



We shall have large exhibitions in connection with the dairy 

 department. As far as dairy tools and implements are con- 

 cerned the exhibit will not be much although I have made a 

 selection of certain things which are articles of our own in- 

 vention, or which we have so improved that I think they 

 should not be omitted ; but we do not expect to go into any 

 large exhibit of dairy implements or machinery. The trade 

 of this country in that line is limited, and, moreover we leave 

 that to the enterprising manufacturers of those lines to look 

 out for themselves. 



By the wa}-, the Vermont houses are to be represented, not 

 through the government exhibit but by private exhibits of 

 their own. 



This is about the whole story. In summing up it means 

 that, obtaining the products wherever they can be gotten good 

 enough from the different parts of the country, we propose to 

 use every possible exertion to carry them carefully to Paris, 

 and to exhibit them there in such a way that they will attract 

 attention, command respect and compare favorably in appear- 

 ance with the dairy products of other parts of the world. 

 While this exhibit is to be under the supervision of the dairy 

 department of the United States and while we are to show the 

 dairy industries of the country as a unit, yet full credit is to 

 be given to the maker and contributor of every separate arti- 

 cle. If the butter or cheese maker from the state of Vermont 

 sends his or her products to be included in this exhibit they 

 will be entered in the name of the manufacturer or contributor 

 and will be so catalogued ; and such credit, such recognition 

 as they receive by diploma or medal, will go to the individual 

 who makes them, not to the Government of the United States 

 which simply acts as an agent. I hope while I am in the town 

 to make arrangements to secure large representations of the 

 dairies in Vermont in this coming United States exhibition at 

 Paris. 



We take the goods at the place where they are made. The 

 government bears all further labor and expense and exhibits 

 in the name of, and to the credit of the maker or contributor. 



