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there isn't so much of a difference after all, because he has to 

 expend a large part of that extra price in maintaining the 

 quah'ty of his product and in educating the people up to the 

 idea of its extra quality. In the section where I live it 

 would be almost foolhardy to undertake to educate the 

 people up to the idea of a higher (juality of milk and paying 

 an extra price for it, because there would be so little demand 

 for it that there would be no money in the business. In 

 most sections of our country we have got to meet the market 

 as we find it. 



Just a word about the inspection of cattle, as conducted 

 over the State of Massachusetts at the present time. I am 

 in favor of having cattle inspected, but I would have it done 

 by persons qualified to do the work properly, and not by 

 those appointed for the payment of political debts. Milk 

 inspectors who simply sit in their offices and expect us to 

 come and pay them 50 cents every 1st of ]\Iay are of little 

 service. If we are to have these officials, they should do 

 something, so that dairymen who are willing to comply with 

 the conditions should receive recognition from the public. 

 Here is a line of work in which dairymen who are alive are 

 only too anxious to co-operate with the advanced ideas of 

 the public. If there are others who are not willing to com- 

 ply with these conditions, let them simply sit down in the 

 background, and not be permitted to compete with those 

 who are willing to do it. 



Question. Are you in favor of using ensilage? 



Mr. Allen. I am in favor of ensilage when fed judi- 

 ciously, and think there is no harm whatever in it. It won't 

 interfere with a gilt-edged product, only you want to feed it 

 judiciously. 



If you will allow me, now that I am up, I would like to 

 reply to Mr. Howe, who spoke a few moments ago about 

 doinof about one-third of the milk business in his town. I 

 would suggest that he get the dealers all together, and form 

 what we have in the city of Springfield, — a milk dealers' 

 protective association, which has been in existence for a 

 number of years, and works beautifulh'. We demand fair 

 prices, and we protect each other, and in such away that we 



