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t"vro-fiftlis or one-half, I assure you, gentlemen, pays its reason- 

 able share. If it does, is it too much to ask the legislature 

 for an appropriation commensurate with the wants of this 

 institution ? I hope the audience will pardon me if I seem a 

 little egotistical in attempting to enlighten an assembly like 

 this in regard to their wants, when I know that they know 

 just as much about the necessity for establishing facts instead 

 of propounding theories as I do. We want science and truth 

 instead of theory, and I trust, Mr. Chairman, that these reso- 

 lutions will meet the hearty approbation of this convention. 



Mr. Hart. The dairy interest and the associated dairy 

 interest in the State of Connecticut demand something from 

 this Experiment Station. Those engaged in the associated 

 dairy enterprise receive milk from the farms in their neigh- 

 borhood, and in applying the various tests to it they find a 

 very great difference in the quality of the milk. They 

 attril)ute tliis difference to various causes that we can all 

 imagine, but we cannot all assert positively. Therefore we 

 need further tests that shall decide the question whether we 

 are imposed upon or not. Feeling the need of this, 1 have 

 been in correspondence with Prof. Johnson to see if we can 

 employ the resources of the Experiment Station to determine 

 whether or not it is a fact, as our own tests indicate, that we 

 are sometimes imposed upon, and, becoming aware of the 

 fact that the means at his command are so limited as to cir- 

 cumscribe his investigations, I am heartily in accord with 

 these resolutions. He has indicated his willingness and 

 desire to enter into an investigation of this subject by analyz- 

 ing milk, which will be of great service to the dairy interest. 

 We want a stand aid of quality. We cannot arrive at that 

 standard without a critical chemical analysis, and we cannot 

 arrive at the fact that we are imposed upon without seeing 

 the evidence of it. Therefore I second these resolutions, and 

 hope the discussion here will bring out an interest that shall 

 act upon the legislature of the State and influence them to 

 furnisli the means to go into this investigation intelligently 

 and successfully. 



