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per pound, amounts to $38,750,000, to which should be added $5,000,000 as 

 the value of the by-products, and $300,000 the value of the cheese produced, 

 making a vast total of over $44,000,000 as the yearly revenue to the people 

 of the state from the dairy interests. 



The butter exported from the state annually is approximately 100,- 

 000,000 pounds, having a net cash value to the dairy farmer and creamery 

 patrons of $25,000,000. And this is substantially net profit. Go with me 

 through the dairy sections of the state and you will find that the farmers 

 who milks his cows has just as many hogs, just as many calves, just 

 as much of farm products as his neighbor similarly situated, but does 

 not milk his cows. The man who milks has his butter extra, and to the 

 creamery patrons this means $25,000,000 net. Quite a substantial amount 

 of pocket money, isn't it? Surely, a safer business proposition than 

 speculating in copper and other stocks in Wall street. 



Numerous, just and wise laws have been enacted to protect the dairy 

 interests. The national and state laws pertaining to oleomargarine have 

 proven a great protection. These measures were enacted only through 

 the diligent and persistent efforts of those staunch friends of the dairy 

 who strenuously insisted that the imitations and substitutes should be 

 sold under their true name and character, and that the element of fraud 

 should be eliminated in the sale and traffic of dairy products. Under 

 recent legislation, both state and national, we have this principle ex- 

 tended so as to include all food products. 



Dairy legislation in the near future will doubtless be along the 

 lines of sanitation on the farm and in the creamery. That cleanliness 

 is an important element of wholesomeness must be impressed and en- 

 forced, if need be by the strong arm of the law, on every one connected 

 with the production of milk and butter. The element of cleanliness is not 

 always apparent on the farm or even in the creamery. Our friend. Pro- 

 fessor McKay, truly says: "It is just as necessary to have a law regard- 

 ing cleanliness in milk and cream as it is to have a law regulating clean- 

 liness in the packing houses." 



No food product is used to the extent or of such recognized impor- 

 tance as milk. It is a perfect and a dependent food for the young child 

 and an important factor in the diet of the older persons. When a child 

 asks for milk, is he not entitled to a pure wholesome article? Shall 

 he be given a life sustainer or a life destroyer? The supply of pure, 

 wholesome milk to our people in both city and country is of vital impor- 

 tance. 



Perhaps I may be pardoned for referring, at this time, to one of the 

 menaces to public health that is attracting general attention, and that is 

 the increase of tuberculosis in cattle and swine. Authorities claim that 

 fully two per cent of cattle slaughtered are afflicted with the disease 

 and that the increase the past six years of the disease in swine is over 

 800 per cent. It is conceded that bovine tuberculosis may be transmitted 

 to swine either by feeding unpasteurized skimmed milk, by access to the 

 droppings of tuberculous cattle or eating the carcasses of cattle that were 

 afflicted with the disease. 



Veterinarians and packers claim that tuberculosis in swine is found 

 in the dairy sections to a much greater extent than elsewhere, doubtless 



