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ling that your officers this year decided to have an exhibition of 

 dairy machinery and of dairy products. The machinery manufac- 

 turers responded, and have sent us an exhibit. Now you want to do 

 your part by showing your interest in them; when you want to buy 

 machinery, buy from them, from the people who have sent their ex- 

 hibits here. 



We are disappointed tliat there are not more dairy products. We 

 did not get our advertisements out early enough I fear. Next year 

 we will do better. Many who have a market for a medium grade ar- 

 ticle will not be able to hold it if some one offers their customer a 

 better article at the same price. When the market is flooded it is 

 the man with the best goods that gets the top price. 



The milk exhibit will be spoken of by a man who is making the 

 examinations. I would that we might see an exhibit from every 

 creamery. 



In our raeetinj^s there has been much stress laid on the thought 

 that you cannot make good butter from poor cream. If you have 

 patrons that are delivering good milk and cream send samples of it 

 to compete at this show. 



I Avant to express my appreciation of the efforts of the Vermont 

 Farm Machine Co. in getting out exhibits from their customers. 

 They offered special prizes to the makers of butter who use their 

 machines, and I believe that the exhibit of butter here is largely due 

 to their efforts. Let us see what we can develop next year in this 

 line. 



I would like to call the attention of the farmers to the desirability 

 of forming associations in your neighborhood, for the testing of your 

 cows and securing the records of the cows in your district. Three 

 different creameries have stated that they are willing to pay $100 

 each to have a man come there at stated periods, say about three 

 times a month, and test the samples of milk. I am not prepared to 

 say today just what I can do, but if eight or ten creameries get to- 

 gether in this way, the expense on each one would be very slight and 

 I would get the man and guarantee his work. 



Now, just a word regarding the butter. I fear that some of you 

 who are exhibitors here may be disappointed in the scores. I select- 

 ed the judge, and he has judged it on the basis of the market require- 

 ments. If some of you have ^a low score, and are getting a top-of-the- 

 market price for it, don't be discouraged, but go ahead and see if you 

 cannot secure a high score and yet please your customers also. 



I submit the following recommendations for your consideration: 



1. That the Dairy Union should work for the passage of laws 

 that will secure the registration of creameries, cheese factories and 

 similar establishments, together with sanitary oversight of such 

 places and the farms where products intended for sale are pro- 

 duced. 



2. The establishment of a great State Fair commensurate with 

 the agricultural interests of this State, the value of the agricultural 

 products being greater each year than the combined value of coal, 

 iron and oil produced annually 



8. A law defining certified milk and providing for the proper use 

 of the term. 



4. The securing of such appropriations to the Pennsylvania State 



