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fair in another part of the Commonwealth, before I knew the 

 days on which the fair here was to be held, which I greatly 

 regretted. Of the evenings devoted to the public winter 

 meeting of the Board of Agriculture, this may perhaps be 

 called "Governor's Evening;" and as Governor of Mas- 

 sachusetts I take great pleasure in presenting to you the 

 Governor of Wisconsin, who not only stands at the head of that 

 great agricultural State of the West, but who is also a prac- 

 tical farmer, and therefore qualified by his experience as well 

 as by his study to speak intelligently and interestingly upon 

 any agricultural topic, — His Excellency Governor Hoard. 



THE DAIRY TEMPERAMENT OF COWS. 



AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE BY GOVERNOR W. D. HOARD OP WISCONSIN. 



(Stenographic report by J. M. W. Yerrinton.) 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : — I am very 

 much interested in appearing before you to-night, for the 

 reason that, as the boy said, "I have the old taste in my 

 mouth once more." I have been dealing with the political 

 bullock for about a year, to the exclusion of my more gentle 

 comrade the cow, and I have not fared as well as I used to, 

 which no doubt is for the wise and beneficent purpose of 

 teaching me not to forsake old friends for others. I have 

 been quite interested in listening to what Governor Brackett 

 has said to you upon the deeds of this " wicked and adulter- 

 ous generation." Verily it is such a generation. "The 

 greed of man stoppeth not short of hell," says Andrew Fuller, 

 and he is right ; and in his greed he Avould not only take 

 himself there, but you and me with him. 



The adulteration of foods has become a crying sin in this 

 nation. Two years ago we established a dairy and food 

 commission in Wisconsin, and appointed a commissioner, 

 assistant commissioner and a chemist, whose business it was 

 to proceed to throw some light upon the situation. Let me 

 give you an illustration showing how far this greed has gone. 

 Thirty samples of cream of tartar, taken from the most 

 reputable grocerymen, were analyzed, and twenty-four out of 

 the thirty contained not a trace of cream of tartar. They 

 were composed of gypsum and white clay, and the acid im- 

 parted by tartaric acid, nitric acid, and various other sub- 



