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lowing statement was made at the last meeting of the Ver- 

 mont State Dairymen's Association by a prominent commis- 

 sion merchant of Boston, one who has large acquaintance 

 with Vermont creamerjr goods : "I have been told by good 

 authority that last year about 90 per cent of all the butter 

 from the west shipped into New York Mas shipped in parch- 

 ment-lined tubs. I do not know of a single creamery in 

 Vermont thai is lining its tubs with parchment paper." The 

 statement was not denied. The first skim-milk weigher in 

 Vermont was put in last winter; they have been used in the 

 west for lo ! these many years. I cite Vermont since I know 

 its conditions better than those of the other New England 

 States, because it is the typical eastern dairy State. It is 

 common remark among commission men and the dairy sup- 

 ply trade that the west promptly meets new demands, — 

 anticipates them, perhaps; that, while sometimes investing 

 in new apparatus of doubtful utility, or adopting methods of 

 questionable wisdom, it leads in new ideas. It seems to me 

 that the east may well copy from the west in this matter, and 

 that we should remember the adage that he who makes no 

 mistakes generally makes nothing. 



5. Educative Agencies. — With all due respect to the 

 good work being done along agricultural lines by this Board, 

 by the Massachusetts Agrieultural College and Experiment 

 Station, by the agricultural press and by the various col- 

 leges, stations and the press of other New England States, I 

 submit that the agricultural educative agencies in the west 

 average higher in efficiency, in getting home dairy knowl- 

 edge to the people, than do those of the New England 

 States. And, more important yet, as has been already indi- 

 cated, the eyes and ears of their constituencies seem to be 

 more open, their hearts and minds more receptive and their 

 hands and energies more active to apply the dairy gospel 

 than is the case in the east. They are " built that way;" 

 they hustle more ; they have earned their success, and they 

 deserve it. Let us emulate them. 



