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by loss, I am not going to complain very much. Now I am just advancing 

 my own idea about that, but I want you to understand this industry ought 

 to have and must have cost for the productions of these products. It is 

 difficult to determine what that cost is. It ought to have a fair profit for 

 the laborer. There is no more reason why the farmer should be asked to 

 sacrifice any profit than anybody else and 1 have yet to see the farmer 

 anywhere in this country where I have found any great expression against 

 that proposition. They are more willing to sacrifice than any body of 

 men I have come in contact with and you can't blame them for not sacri- 

 ficing beyond their means. 



This industry is supported by 6,000,000 units in round numbers, scat- 

 tered all over the mountain sides and the hills'ides, the valleys and the 

 plains of this nation. The morning sun's face finds the family awake and 

 at work, but we think the sun finds them in most cases starting at work 

 back there In those homes. Back there in those homes in 1776 was born 

 the idealisms for which we are fighting today, back there was born by 

 the fireside where the Bible was read at night and prayers were said, 

 there was born the patriotism that made this nation possible and in the 

 Civil War was born the love of God, the love of a nation that made it 

 possible for us today to be the power we are in the world and back there 

 in that home was born again the idea of sacrifice, the love of liberty, the 

 protection of Individual right as against autocracy and autocratic en- 

 croachments that made it possible for us to go in and win this war as 

 win it we will. I say those homes and this love of liberty, to sacrifice 

 today as much as we can give for liberty, individual rights, human happi- 

 ness to remember the birthplace from which it arose. For that reason 

 we must so organize ourselves, we must so conserve this industry which is 

 absolutely the mainstay of those 6,000,000 units in the long run so that 

 they can continue. 



How will it be done? We have the National Dairy Council, an organiza- 

 tion which is in its infancy yet. It can't be done through one body. The 

 man most interested in this industry i's the man back there who owns the 

 cows on the farm, it is his product that we are talking about, the cows he 

 owns the only source of that product and ninety per cent of that product 

 comes from farms where dairy cattle are in fact a secondary considera- 

 tion. I mean by ninety per cent of the portion of that product that 

 butter is about eighty per cent of all the milk produced on those farms 

 where dairy cattle are secondary in only one sense but not secondary in 

 any other sense. How can we organize these 6,000,000 units? Careful 

 thought has been given to it and a plan involved which is in a forming 

 betterment way. We started to organize the State Dairy Councils so that 

 we can get back as near as possible to the man who owns those cows and 

 get him engaged in helping the development of this industry and create 

 the market in which the product is sold or protect the market in which 

 the product is sold through these dairy councils. We hope to build that 

 6,000,000 units into one national co-ordinated organization and in time 

 we hope that the men who own these cows will come to realize that they 

 are engaged in an industry greater than any other. It is a mighty side 

 harder to be a good farmer than to be a banker; it is a mighty side harder 

 to produce successfully and businesslike from your land and your cows 



