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There is just one condition that is the limiter of the dairy pro- 

 fits: namely, ignorance, there are very few people who are not will- 

 ing and anxious for more information provided they do not have to 

 expose their ignorance in getting it. We do earnestly hope the dili- 

 gent and persistent dissemination of dairy instruction through the 

 entire State, taking it to those who cannot avail themselves of the 

 instruction and excellent object lessons afforded them at the State 

 College. The teaching how to select or breed up a profitable herd, 

 the growing of cro])s on the farm suitable for their feed, correct 

 housing and stabling, feeding to avoid waste and loss, stable care, 

 handling and milking, handling and care of the milk, testing and 

 preparing milk for market and selling it for what it really is, are sub- 

 jects that should be carefully discussed in language and in such ways 

 as can easily be understood and assimilated. Much of this must be 

 done in a very primitive way for it is much like feeding strong feed 

 to a babe, to be assimilated, must be given in small doses. 



It should be generally known that the cow is an artificial animal, 

 and to keep her from retrograding requires eternal vigilance, and that 

 her product is the most easily injured of all foods, but if undefiled it 

 is the best. 



Dairij sanitation seems to be the hardest dose for the less progres- 

 sive dairyman to swallow. He feels that it is one more straw on 

 the already overloaded back. It is hard for him to believe that there 

 are thousands of active organisms who are responsible for much of 

 the annoyance to the dairyman that are so small that their presence 

 is only revealed to him by the results of their work. This branch of 

 the instruction oftentimes requires much tact. 



Now dairy education will do much toward establishing a whole- 

 some respect for the business and will eventually help to narrow the 

 gap now existing between the producer and consumer and to a great 

 extent the margin in price. 



The city business man who has his farm and dairy for recreation 

 is an important factor in the intermingling of dairy interests as 

 well as a valuable object lesson to his neighbors. 



We believe the question of dairy improvement in all of its phases 

 is a matter of education and much of it must be carried to the far- 

 mer at his place of business, if it is to be effective. The national 

 increase in our population must make this fact more prominent. 



ADDRESS BY MR. BAYARD 



Mr. Chairman and Members of the Board: When I am called out 

 in this way, it does kind of get my heart to palpitating. I'm very 

 much like an old negro I use»d to know, who said, "If I knowed whar 

 I come from, I'd like to go back home." You want me to tell you 

 about the Fair. Van Norman and such bachelors ought to tell you 

 about the "fair." 



