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leges or Universities, if you please but we have now enough of 

 that kind such as Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, New York, 

 etc., to educate the needed creamery butter makers, whose sal- 

 aries are too low as it is. What we need is to help the private 

 dairymen and the milk producers, and these can best be reached 

 by the proposed perambulating Dairy Grammar School. Or, bet- 

 ter still, perhaps the time will come when the whole system of 

 education will be modified; when the county "grammar" school 

 will be cut down to four or at most six years, when text books 

 pointing to the farm instead of from the farm will be used; and 

 when county farm and technical schools will take the place of the 

 last two years of our present grammar schools, and the first 

 two years of the regular high schools, leading, as the case may be, 

 to the state agricultural, the technical or classical university. 



The Dairy Press is an important link in dairy education, and 

 no dairyman should be without several, first of all "Hoard's 

 Dairyman, 3 ' and creamerymen should have "New York Produce 

 Review," the <f Dairy Record" "Creamery Journal" "Chicago 

 Dairy Produce," etc. A full list of dairy papers is given else- 

 where and any of them will cheerfully send a sample copy. 



The Dairy Division, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. C., may at any time be applied to for advice, and help 

 and will send such bulletins as may assist you in your work free 

 of charge or at a nominal cost. 



But of all the means of patrons' education, I rank as highest 

 the school house meetings, held once a month or so, where neigh- 

 bors may meet and exchange views. Such a "club" should own 

 a library for reference, and I suggest as a "starter 33 Prof. Henry's 

 "Feeds and Feeding," Prof. Russell's "Dairy Bacteriology" 

 Prof. Farrington and Woll's "Testing of Milk and Its Products" 

 Prof. King's "Physics of Agriculture" which means an expendi- 

 ture of only $5.75, or a complete farmers' library (co-operative)' 

 might be established at the creamery, see book list 



