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this and you will find the milk in that tank ; it was there last 

 night, and, notwithstanding the fact that the thermometer has 

 been down to twenty-five or thirty below, there was no frozen 

 milk. I say the ideal place, both winter and summer, is water 

 to keep milk, and I think the buttermakers will all agree with me. 



The President: We are favored this afternoon also by the 

 presence of a man from Wisconsin, Mr. J. G. Moore, the cream- 

 ery inspector of the State, who has kindly consented to talk to 

 us for a few minutes. 



REMARKS. 



J. G. MOORE, MADISON, WISCONSIN. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen — To express my feelines on this 

 occasion when your happy president here invited me to fill to the best of my 

 ability Professor Curtiss' place on the programme I will tell you a story , a short 

 one. A woman lay dying; there was no doubt about her demise, and she 

 called husband to her side. She said "Now, John, I have been a good wife 

 to you all these long years and I am about to die. I am not going to burden 

 you with a great many requests but there is just one next to my heart and I 

 want you to promise you will do it for me." Well, he said he would do it, 

 and she said "when my funeral comes off, I want you to ride in the carriage 

 with my mother." He looked at his feet a minute and then said ' 'well, I 

 will, but it will spoil the pleasure of the occasion for me." So you heard 

 Mr. Kieffer telling about his feelings, and that expresses my feelings on this 

 occasion. 



I came out expecting to enjoy this meeting and learn something. I am 

 doing both, but I would prefer to sit in the audience and learn at the feet of 

 these gentlemen who are so much better adapted to talk to you than I, but 

 I will talk to you about a few things that are agitating our minds in Wiscon- 

 sin. One of these is creamery inspection, the other is, or has been the 

 licensing of buttermakers and creameries in order to have better results. 



We, of Wisconsin, have had a Dairymen's Association for thirty-three 

 years. That association has had an appropriation from the State, which it 

 has expended in keeping up cheese instructions in the State. You people 

 have noticed in the papers the results of the- tests at the World's Fair, how 

 Wisconsin got it rubbed into her all over so far as butter was concerned, 

 but the Wisconsin cheese took all the prizes, or nearly all. There was some- 

 thing back of that and to my mind one of the greatest factors in presenting 

 that result in cheese was the fact that we had those cheese instructors work- 

 ing among the cheese factories for the last fifteen years. 



You have among you Mr, DeWitt Goodrich, who is the first creamery in- 

 structor Wisconsin ever had. That was about three years ago. We have 

 the largest number of creameries and cheese factories of any State, 1,200 

 creameries and 1,800 cheese factories, so the work of instruction is a large 

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