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a perfectly pasteurized supply with an average of less than 

 10,000 bacteria per c. c., or a carefully inspected tuberculin 

 tested raw milk, with an equally low count. 



THE CHAIRMAN: I submit to you that we should not treat with 

 scant courtesy a gentleman who has been delegated from a for- 

 eign country to come to this meeting, so I urge you to remain a 

 little longer, as we are almost through, and I beg of you to remain 

 until the close of the meeting. 



It gives me great pleasure to introduce the Hon. W. F. Nickle, 

 Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada. 



MR. NICKLE said: 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: Brevity is at all times 

 the soul of wit, and when, after a two-days' conference, a quarter 

 of eleven is reached, the man certainly becomes most brilliant who 

 is most brief. I certainly cannot let this opportunity pass, as 

 the representative of the Government of the Province of Ontario, 

 without thanking you, Mr. Chairman, and the members of the New 

 York Milk Committee, for the courtesy that was extended to my 

 Province in asking that a representative be sent to this conference; 

 and to express my sense of gratification for the many, many, ex- 

 cellent papers that have been read. I trust that in the future, 

 when further conferences are held, the Province of Ontario and 

 the other Provinces of the Dominion, will not be forgotten. 



As I said in the beginning, Sir, at this late hour I am not going 

 to discuss at any great length the work that is being done in the 

 Province of Ontario. It does not concern you very closely, and 

 yet it does concern you to a certain extent, as your state forms 

 the Southern boundary of our Province for some distance, in the 

 neighborhood of Ogdensburg, and along the Niagara Peninsula. 

 Farther west we meet the State of Michigan along the Detroit 

 River and at the Sault ; so Ontario, to a certain extent, bounds you. 



Through the lowering of your tariff, a considerable quantity of 

 cream and milk is finding its way into your state, and if it should 

 come to a fuller reciprocity in natural products I think that you 

 may look for much more of our dairy products. 



I am here as one of the representatives appointed by the Gov- 

 ernment of Ontario, to look into the question of the milk supply 

 of that Province. Alarmed at a decreasing birth rate and an in- 

 creasing death rate in children, the Government felt that it was 

 essential that something should be done, and it appointed a Com- 

 mission to inquire into the production, distribution and care of 

 milk. 



On that Commission was a Scientific Expert who acted as Chair- 



