No. 4.] DAIRY PRIZES. 7 



by fire and had to use a shed to milk in. Last March this 

 man won as first prize for clean milk at Amherst a bull calf, 

 which in turn won a first prize at the recent Brockton Fair, 

 and the same man won first prize for clean milk at Brockton, 

 under the bacteria test, — a first prize of $100. He is a man 

 who is dependent upon his labor, upon his farm, for a living. 



Now, when this bill was before the Legislature the com- 

 mittee said, " There is no use in offering these prizes. The 

 fancy farmers will get them all." I said, " You never made 

 a greater mistake than that in your lives, gentlemen. We 

 will have this thing fixed so that such people can't enter, but," 

 I said, " if they do, you needn't worry. Clean milk is not 

 necessarily milk produced in a $40,000 or $50,000 barn." 

 ]Srow, the winner of the first prize in the eastern section 

 proved that. 



In the western section the first prize goes to Peter Ivron- 

 vall, of East Longmeadow, a Swede who is earning his living 

 and is also a comparatively poor man. I want to tell you 

 something about this Swedish farmer who has come here 

 and is earning his living among you. He has a wife, as I 

 suppose most of the contestants have. The wife's share is a 

 notable thing about all these contests ; as, for instance, when 

 Mr. J. F. Adams won first prize for the best farming oper- 

 ations in Massachusetts, his wife was right there at his 

 shoulder, helping him out. Mr. Adams did his part and Mrs. 

 Adams did hers, and together they took a $400 prize. Peter 

 Kronvall's wife did the milking, and she milked in an open- 

 top pail. I don't recommend the open-top pail for the use 

 of any man; but a woman, on account of the way she sits 

 and holds the pail for milking, can't use anything but an 

 open-top pail. A woman's method, as you have no doubt 

 noticed, is to hold the pail out from under the cow. 



The entire list of prize winners is as follows : — 



List of Peizes. 

 The following premiums were awarded for the best samples 

 of hand-drawn, unstrained mixed milk of five cows. There 

 were 114 contestants: — 



