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the dairymen of all nations. It is proving of 

 great value. It is estimated that in his own 

 state, Wisconsin, the saving per year by its 

 use is fully a million of dollars, while a single 

 syndicate, comprising one hundred and thirty 

 creameries, according to the testimony of its 

 manager, saves at least one hundred and fifty 

 thousand dollars a year by means of this test. 



These two men have not only made modern 

 dairying possible, added enormously to the 

 wealth of nations, and been of large service in 

 relieving man of toil, but they have opened the 

 way to an indefinite expansion of the dairy 

 industry, so that they are contributors to the 

 wealth of posterity far more than to that of 

 the generation in which they live. 



Without drawing any unfair distinction or 

 casting any discredit upon Dr. De Laval, it may 

 be said that the invention of Dr. Babcock takes 

 on a peculiar interest in view of the fact that, 

 though he might have amassed a colossal for- 

 tune had he taken out a patent upon his inven- 

 tion, he yet gave it to the world as the other 

 remarkable results of experiment station work 

 have been given to the world, free of all cost, 

 — a significant and commanding illustration of 



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