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people that want cheap milk. I have found one dealer that 

 would promise me this, that he would pay the farmer what 

 he ought to have for producing his milk, but what do you 

 suppose I said that was ? I said that no man can produce you 

 as good a milk as you ought to want to sell for less than six 

 cents a quart. If you will pay the man that, I will name one 

 who will produce you a milk up to the standard. He promised 

 me he would do it, and if things had been just right he would, 

 and today he would have wanted another dairy, but there were 

 some reasons why he could not. Finally he made an arrange- 

 ment whereby he was to pay six cents as fast as he sold it, 

 but now he is taking the entire amount at six cents, and he is 

 making a bigger margin on his milk than when he sold a cheap 

 variety. 



This milk question will never be settled until people find 

 out that wholesome milk costs money. It is a matter of 

 education, but it is coming very rapidly. The wonder to 

 me is that the public and the producers and dealers do wot 

 see it, but it is coming very rapidly. The time is fast ap- 

 proaching when we are going to get better prices for both 

 butter and milk. The producers will receive it, and the 

 consumers will be willing to pay it, because they are going to 

 find out just as they already have in some places that they 

 cannot get a twenty-dollar suit for fifteen dollars, and when 

 they find out that they cannot get a pure wholesome grade of 

 milk for six cents, a great many families are going to be 

 willing to pay a higher price. I think that the milkmen can 

 do a good deal to create a demand for that kind of a product 

 because after all it is a matter of education. It is such gather- 

 ings as this and grange meetings which help push on the good 

 work. The dairymen's meeting which will be held in Hartford 

 will also help the cause. 



Prof. Van vSlyke. Mr. Chairman, I would like to say 

 before I go that if the practical application of what I have 



