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proved it conclusively a thousand times over. No man who studies the 

 facts can doubt it. The evidence is to be seen in the heifers of every 

 such sire, and in their contrast with heifers lacking such parentage. 



ADDRESS. 



PEOF. E. H. WEBSTER, CHIEF DAIRY DIVISION, W^ASIIINGTON, D. C. 



3Ir. Chairman, Members of the Convention: I am certainly very glad 

 to be with you and be able to talk over some of the things that are of 

 interest to buttermakers, because the interests of the buttermakers here 

 are similar to those in other States, and we are trying to study your con- 

 ditions and needs, to find some way to meet the demand that you make 

 upon those that are trying to serve you in that way. I feel this afternoon 

 that my position is simply a servant of the dairymen and buttermakers of 

 this country, and as long as I occupy the position I now have, and as long 

 as I can be of assistance in helping the dairy interests of the country, I 

 am certainly glad of the opportunity to be of such use. 



I wish, if we could get nothing more out of this convention than the 

 talk given here by Professor Fi'aser a few minutes ago, that that would 

 sink into your souls and you could take it home with you, and those who 

 are milking cows would remember what he said, and those who have 

 interest in the farmers that come to your creameries, take that home with 

 you and tell your patrons what you have learned here in regard to these 

 facts so well illustrated by Professor Eraser. I think it would be well to 

 spend an hour now in absolute silence meditating on what he said. I 

 believe it would be an hour of profitable experience to us if we would 

 think over the address we have just heard, if we would think of the 

 opportunities and possibilities before us in our own immediate circle for 

 the betterment of dairy conditions; and an hour spent thinking along 

 those lines would be profitable to all of us, and yet we cannot take the 

 hour that way, but we will have weeks and months and years from now 

 on when we can dwell on these things, and I hope it will grow into 

 action, and that we will all prove by our actions that we have been 

 benefited by this excellent talk along the line of production of milk, be- 

 cause that is the foundation of all of our work, and all the effort we put 

 on the manufacturing or marketing of butter is simply in continuance of 

 what we ought to do in the line of production, in encouraging profitable 

 production among our farmers. 



We have a great many complaints coming to us as buttermakers; a 

 great many farmers saying it is not profitable to dairy. We have seen 

 why it is not profitable, but take that home with you and show the 

 farmers why it is not profitable. I wish I could spend an hour on this 

 subject, but it is out of my line. Think of a cow test association at your 

 creamery with you as the tester. I believe there are possibilities along 

 that line, and if the buttermaker will form in his own community a test 

 association whereby he can test his farmers' cows and point out to the 

 farmer the things we have had shown here this afternoon, and when you 

 do that you are going to have a lot of farmers that are dissatisfied with 



