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and visit and go home with an appetite for the good things 

 that we manufactured, so that when the State mark was on 

 it anybody and everybody knew that the cattle had been 

 examined on the farm, knew that the barn w^as clean and 

 a fit place to keep live stock in, kncAv that the milk pail was 

 clean and sanitary, knew that the cow was properly cared 

 for and properly nourished and that there was no filth in 

 there; and not only that, but that the cans that the milk 

 was shipped in, or the cream — knew that we had a system 

 all over the State so that people who wanted to raise 

 chickens or swine or calves could skim their milk and send 

 their creiam to New York City and sell the butter fat for 

 about what you are getting for your whole milk now. 



They said they knew we Avanted that and they wanted 

 to build it for us and we told them to put it in black and 

 white and we would entertain it. We have asked the State 

 to permit us to rent this magnificent creamery and have it 

 in operation in a year and open a free public market there 

 for selling these goods. We do not expect to put the milk 

 companies out of business either; we expect to do business 

 like Mr. Canford or the Beatrice Milk Company "or the 

 l\riddleton Creamery at Denver, or a multitude of others. 



Some of you know these people and many of you have 

 bought their products, for they market here in this eastern 

 country. They produce it on land worth $150. to $200. an 

 {)Cre and when your land is sweetened with lime and proper- 

 ly cared for it is .just as good dairy land as any tliat the sun 

 shines on in the United States, and we hope to raise the 

 price to you people a cent a quart, and on the other hand 

 we hope it is possible to lower the price to the consumer. We 

 hope to have one milk wagon delivering in a block where 

 six or eight now go. and we are not going to put anybody 

 out of business, liut we may investigate and see how much 

 dividends they are paying on watered stock or Blue-sky; 

 we may look into their business as we did into the bread 

 business, and if we do you will see it in the papers. They 

 have alreadv been to see us and thev tell us that we are dis- 



