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analysis of that feed ; then get three reliable citizens to see you take 

 a sample from those sacks, do it up, and mail it to the Experiment 

 Station at Columbia and they will analyze it free. Now, of course, even 

 if you do find they have cheated you in representing a high per cent 

 of protein, when there is but a low per cent, you cannot prosecute be- 

 cause there is no law on the subject, but you can publish them, and fre- 

 quently publicity is a sufficient weapon to use. You understand we 

 need to have the support of every man in the State who cares at all for 

 straight business. 



There is another matter that demands attention. I want to call 

 your attention to the awful bigness of Missouri — ^the great empire of 

 Missouri; for two m.en to cover this State and do the things that the 

 bill passed last year commanded the State Dairy Commissioner and his 

 deputy to do, they have to spread themselves out over the State until 

 they are awfully thin. The bill commands the State Dairy Commis- 

 sioner to co-operate with the State Board of Agriculture in holding 

 farmers' institute meetings throughout the State. I have been doing 

 this. I have attended nearly loo meetings since the first of August and 

 will continue to do so until New Year's. Another division of the work 

 assigned the State Dairy Commissioner besides working among the 

 farmers, encouraging and instructing them, is the working with the 

 butter makers and cheese makers of the State, aiding them to produce 

 a better grade of butter and cheese, so that their goods will bring a 

 higher price in the market. Then there is the most disagreeable part 

 of the whole work, /. e. the inspection — the hunting and nosing around 

 for adulterated goods. Considerable dairy butter in this State is worked 

 over into ladles, so-called "ladle butter," and horax is added in order 

 to preserve it. Milk containing formaldehyde is sold in all the large 

 cities of the State and other milk is skimmed or watered. In order to 

 accomplish what we would like to accomplish and what you want us to 

 accomplish, we should have several more inspectors and a provision for 

 paying them and their expenses. I think that this will put you in touch 

 with the duties and troubles, you might say, of those who have the 

 work immediately in hand, and I trust that when the Legislature meets 

 again we may hear from you all in a definite manner. 



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