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suuiers and larger per capita consumption are, in my 

 judgment, sufficient to take care of the increase in produc- 

 tion for many years to come. The increase in the number 

 of consumers has come as a matter of course. The increased 

 consumption per capita, however, has been the direct result 

 of the marked improvement in the quality of the various 

 dairy products, — a betterment which has been brought 

 about by the educating effect of constant agitation upon the 

 minds of dairymen (the makers of raw material, milk) and 

 of creamery men (the manufacturers of finished products, 

 butter, cheese, etc.). This education from the press and the 

 platform, from the laboratory and the class room is resulting 

 in the making of better milk, from which better butter and 

 cheese can be made. It has taught the food producer the 

 money value of palatability and attractiveness. 



Let creameries multiply, cheese factories dot the land- 

 scape, the milk trains penetrate yet further from the 

 metropolis, the cattle on a thousand hills cover ten times a 

 thousand, and farmers the country over turn to that most 

 rational system of husbandry, whose foundation lies in 

 dairying, — let all this happen, yet I fear not over-produc- 

 tion, the bugaboo of timid souls for generations past ; I fear 

 it not, so long as a high grade of dairy products is made to 

 tempt the appetite to their larger use. 



3. The Dairy Business. — At the outset I admitted that, 

 in formulating my scheme of division, I seemed to have 

 interchanged the locations of cart and horse ; also that much 

 which might be said under the head of " economies of manu- 

 facture " could very properly be considered under the present 

 heading ; that, in short, the two were closely alike, and not 

 capable of clear differentiation. I made the distinction, 

 however, deliberately, as I wanted under the one heading to 

 lay stress upon the economic side of the problem, and in the 

 other, that now under consideration, to place the emphasis 

 upon the educational side. The remainder of my appeal 

 will not be addressed directly to the pocket-book, but to the 

 brain. Under this heading I want to consider : — 



(a) Dairy education. 



(b) The use of the Babeock test at the factory and on 

 the farm. 



