STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATION, 367 



unit for testing cream by the Babcock test shall be i8 grams by weight, 

 and prohibiting the measurement of cream by the piepette, where pay- 

 ments are made on the percentage of fat in such cream ; requiring records 

 to be kept at creameries and cheese factories that shall be open to inspec- 

 tion, and prescribing a legal form of statement to be made to patrons of 

 creameries and cheese factories in the payment of dividends; and giving 

 the dairy commission authority to enforce such measures as may be nec- 

 essary to secure cleanliness in and around any factory, building, dairy or 

 premises where any dairy product is manufactured, handled or stored, 

 when such product is to be sold or shipped. 



Having succeeded in procuring the enactment of good dairy laws^ 

 the dairy commissioner can promote dairy progress by procuring a com- 

 petent and sufficient corps of assistants and inspectors to enforce those 

 laws. In the selection of his assistants and inspectors the cause of dairy 

 progress can be served by the appointment of only the very best and most 

 competent men available for doing this great work. These men must be 

 experienced experts, and should receive compensation commensurate 

 with their skill and efficiency. As these men are to bear the gospel of 

 cleanliness to every creamery and cheese factory in the State and to every 

 patron of the creameries and cheese factories and to other producers of 

 dairy products, the men appointed to this service should be men who are 

 themselves habitually neat, clean and tidy in their own personal habits and 

 appearance ; for what could be more out of place than an untidy inspector 

 going to a creamery to secure cleanliness. To an untidy inspector, the 

 shiftless cheese or butter maker could retort, "physician, heal thyself." 

 Only such men must receive appointment as have by eminently successful 

 experience in creameries or cheese factories demonstrated their efficiency, 

 not only as the most skillful of makers, but also in what is equally im- 

 portant, as managers of men. They must be gentlemen. Their success 

 in operating creameries or cheese factories should have manifested itself 

 in educating their patrons to furnish the creamery or cheese factory with 

 clean milk that has been properly cared for and delivered always in cans 

 scrupulously clean ; for only men of such character and efficiency can be 

 relied upon to lead in the pathway of dairy progress. Above all, these men 

 must be progressive men. They must have a progressive spirit. Their 

 past experience must have demonstrated that they are such men. They 

 must be up to date. They must be twentieth century men and they must 

 be capable of exercising strong and positive leadership. They must not 

 be mere floats along the current of popular opinion. If the blind lead 

 the blind both shall fall into the ditch. 



With laws of such character as I have indicated and such assistants- 



