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I say this to you fellows who are dairymen. Some of you care noth- 

 ing about it because you are not dairymen, but I want to say to you 

 right now that those fellows in the western end of the State and in 

 the western end of Tioga county feel very much hurt and one of the 

 biggest condenseries in the world is that doing business at the county 

 seat or near Wellsboro, and the other day the proprietors of the in- 

 stitution made the price to them for the year with a 5% reduction. 

 There is nothing that you know of or I know of to warrant that re- 

 duction at this particular time, but their little factories were all 

 gone and they simply had them at their mercy. 



One young man told me the other day — to show you furthermore 

 how sometimes these things are run — that he patronized the station, 

 this factory, and he has been at the State College and understands 

 the testing of milk as well as their man who does the testing for them. 

 He took his milk to the factory and when they took out the sample 

 for a test, he had them to take out a sample for him to test, also ; there 

 could absolutely be no mistake, and when the test was given him by 

 the factory and he compared his test with it, they differed some 6 

 points. He went back to them and told them "I know that I am ab- 

 solutely right; I am perfectly willing that you should take a sample 

 of the milk, if you are not satisfied, and send it to the State College 

 or any other place, and I am perfectly willing to abide by the decision 

 of anybody who is competent to make this test." They simply said 

 "If you are not satisfied with our test, go somewhere else; we are 

 doing business here; neither the State College nor anybody else is 

 doing it for us." Now, gentlemen, what I have said, I have said 

 particularly for you people who may be thinking of giving all you 

 have got in the dairy line into the hands of some other person to con- 

 trol; don't you do it. 



ADDRESS OF DR. SPARKS 



I can only say that I am sure everyone interested in agriculture 

 is interested in getting the most out of the State's money which is 

 appropriated for the various lines of agriculture. I know that you 

 are all interested in the present interest which is taken by the Gov- 

 ernor of the Commonwealth and the Secretary of Agriculture and 

 those who are charged with the administration of the School of 

 Agriculture at Pennsylvania State College, to so harmonize these 

 factors of the State Government that the money which is expended 

 shall bring the largest returns. No one of us would voluntarily keep 

 two teams to do the work on the farm which one team could do, and 

 we all realize the necessity of making a proper adjustment between 

 the work to be carried on by the School of Agriculture at the College 

 and the work to be carried on by the Department of Agriculture at 

 Harrisburg. That is the task the Governor and Secretary have set 

 themselves to do, to divide the line, as I understand it, by an arbi- 

 trary division which shall say that such work as you have had more 



