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pointinents and so it has been done ever since. I do not know 

 whether that rule obtained before that time or not. Perhaps some of 

 the older members of the Board can tell us how that matter was. 

 It seems to me that the Executive Committee is entirely competent 

 to do this work, and perhaps they can do it as well, if not better, than 

 the Secretary. 



MR. EDGE: I can readily see that you want to get out of the re- 

 sponsibility. I think it is a good thing to do if you can 



MB. FENSTERMAKER: Mr. Chairman, this is a very important 

 question; one of the most important, and I move to refer it to the 

 Executive Committee. 



The motion being seconded, it was agreed to. 



The CHAIRMAN: I see before me Dr. Conard; we should be 

 pleased to hear from him. 



DR. CONARD: Mr. Chairman and Members of the Board: I did 

 not expect to be called upon, but I do feel like saying that we may 

 congratulate ourselves in having with us a Professor of Dairying 

 who is at our service and capable of giving us instructions that we so 

 very much need. Probably that strikes me a little closer than it does 

 some others. I live in a dairy district myself, and for the last few 

 years, particularly, it has been my duty to educate, in a measure, a 

 great many people in the handling of milk, particularly for city 

 trade, people who have been educated principally in an opposite 

 direction, so as to be in need of instruction. Their market has been 

 of such a character as to favor the production of milk at a time it 

 was not wanted in the city. The requirements of the market have 

 been such, too, that it did not favor careful handling and did favor 

 rather the improper handling, I think I might say, and to change 

 the character of their market and the character of its requirements 

 has been necessary, and the results I must say have been somewhat 

 satisfactory, but I do feel the need of just what we are told we have 

 and what I know we have in Prof. Van Norman, and as Secretary 

 Martin has kindly offered to the State his services at dairy demon- 

 strations, I think that Secretary Martin will hear from me very soon 

 on that topic. I do not know of anything that can be of more ser- 

 vice to us than just such demonstrations as have been alluded to. 

 If we are only second now in the United States, as a dairy state, a 

 little bit more effort, I think, will make us stand a little higher than 

 that. It is true that the Philadelphia market is being supplied 

 more from Penns} r lvania than it ever was. The State of New Jersey 

 has contributed \erj liberally to the Philadelphia market until very 

 recent years, but the tendency now is for New Jersey to consume her 

 own products. She is a truck-garden state, a large proportion of it 

 at least, and she has consumed her own products largely of late. 

 Little boroughs and towns all over the State of New Jersey are grow- 

 ing to such an extent that they can consume the most that is produced 

 in their own neighborhood, so that Philadelphia has to look else- 

 where for her supply. New York milk has been shipped to Phila- 

 delphia to a great extent, but for obvious reasons; that is not as 

 it should be, and the trend now is to look to Pennsylvania for sup- 

 plies. It has had a tendency to develop dairy industries in that par- 



