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details it may be remarked that it has now been amply proven that 

 considerable quantities of borax or boracic acid are inimical to diges- 

 tion and to health; that minor quantities are more or less so 

 though at times, perhaps, not injurious to healthy adults. These pre- 

 servatives are undoubtedly less dangerous than are the ptomaines 

 which may form if the materials remain unpreserved, yet they do 

 not form when care and cold are used. Science has put its seal of 

 disapproval on the use of preservatives unless the existence thereof 

 is advertised on the container of the goods. 



I have taxed your patience for a long time, yet I have only out- 

 lined a few of the many relatively recent contributions of research 

 of dairying. If } r ou would know more of them, would study any 

 phase of the subject, ask and I will gladly direct you to literature if 

 1 am acquainted with it. 



Now with what exhibition of oratory and rhetoric shall I close? 

 A preacher having talked long and prosily to a lot of children, finally 

 said: "Now, little folks, what more can I say to you and do for you?" 

 A little lad in the front row piped up, "Say amen and set down." 

 "Amen" means "so be it;" and so most heartily to everything 

 science and practicable that makes for dairy advancement say I 

 "Amen" — and sit down. 



JOINT SEISSION OF PENNSYLVANIA LIVE STOCK BREED- 

 ERS' ASSOCIATION AND PENNSYLVANIA DAIRY 



UNION. 



Pittsburg, Pa., January 17, 1906, 7.30 P. M. 



The CHAIRMAN: We will now listen to the Hon. N. B. Critch- 

 field, Secretary of Agriculture, who will give us a short talk. 



ADDRESS. 



By HON. N. B. CRITCHF1KLD. Secretary of Agriculture. 



Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen of this Union Meeting: I went to a 

 great deal of trouble to get here this evening. I have been very 

 busy for the last few days, and it was quite an undertaking for me 

 to get here at all, but I wanted to come, if I could only be present at 

 this joint session, and in order that by my presence I might be able 

 to assure you of the personal interest that I feel in the work you are 

 doing, and the interest that the Department of Agriculture of the 

 State of Pennsylvania feels in what you are doing, what both these 

 organizations are doing for the agriculture of the Commonwealth of 

 Pennsylvania. There is another reason, Mr. Chairman, why I was 

 especially anxious to be here to-night, and that was in order that I 

 might have the pleasure of meeting, and not only meeting but hear- 

 ing, the distinguished gentlemen whom you have brought here from 

 other states. 



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