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cerned, if the beef is well cooked, the cooking will kill the 

 germ, and there will be no danger whatever; but, after all, 

 we do not any of us hanker after that sort of beef, and we 

 always advise to let it go into the rendering tank ; let it be 

 made into fertilizer. 



Professor Brooks. Mr. Chairman, I want to say a word 

 in connection with tuberculosis. It may do something to 

 allay excitement and fear from the danger of using milk, etc. 

 I see the statement repeated, it crops out again and again, 

 that tuberculosis or consumption in the human family is 

 known only where milk is used as human food. I know of 

 my own ol)servation that this is not the fact. I lived for 

 twelve years among a peo})le, the Japanese, of whom con- 

 sumption carries off as large a proportion as it does here, 

 and they never use the milk of cows as human food. 



Adjourned until 2 r.M. 



Afternoon Session. 

 The chairman called the meeting to order at about 2.30, 

 and said : Gentlemen, the subject to which your attention 

 will be first called this afternoon is "Work of the State 

 Dairy Bureau," which will be presented by Mr. George M. 

 Whitaker, assistant executive officer, whom I have now the 

 pleasure of introducing to you. 



The lecture of Mr. Whitaker, being in sul)stance the forth- 

 coming annual report of the Dairy Bureau to the Legisla- 

 ture, is omitted from the proceedings of the public winter 

 meeting. The annual report of the Dairy Bureau will be 

 found as a special report to the Legislature, following the 

 report of the Gypsy Moth Committee. 



The Chairman. Mr. Wm. Bancroft of Chesterfield I 

 believe wished to make a motion at this time, and I will ask 

 the secretary to read it. 



Secretary Sessions. Mr. Bancroft moves a vote of thanks 

 to Mr. Arthur W. Iloyle, an enthusiastic young florist of 

 this town, for his volunfary ornamentation of the platform 

 (luring this session; also to Mr. John D. Avery, our late 

 associate, for his kindness and untiring efforts in contrib- 



