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Board of Agriculture, Mr. Chairman, and that of the fed- 

 eral government, through Mr. Weld, to that important com- 

 mercial question and ask you to solve it, I believe that then 

 you will have taken the first step to solve for all time the 

 question of the restoration of the dairy farm in Massachusetts. 



'Now, is the present condition favorable to the dairies out- 

 side of Massachusetts ? To answer that question I want to 

 say this, that while I was selling D. Whiting & Sons a 20- 

 cent cream for $1.75, 8V2 quarts at about 20 cents a quart, 

 Mr. Whiting told me that he was paying me $1.75 per can 

 for what so far as fat contents was concerned, was exactly 

 the same as could be bought in the State of INfaine for 76 

 cents. I spent nearly ten days in Maine looking up that 

 proposition and I found that it was absolutely so, and the 

 only reason he took the small product from my farm at that 

 time and at that price was in order to have it sustain a cream 

 which he could put out to the more particular trade until 

 the trouble was past. 



I therefore believe that the condition of affairs which I 

 have tried in this short time to drive home to the members 

 of the Board indicates that the solution of this question is 

 purely the solution of the commercial, mercantile question, 

 to work out the salvation of the Massachusetts dairymen. 



Mr. R. B. Baker. I would like to ask the last speaker if 

 he doesn't consider that sanitary milk can be produced in 

 this State and marketed at 50 cents a can, which I believe 

 he said he was receiving ? 



Mr. Albree. To specifically answer the gentleman's ques- 

 tion: I am willing to undertake to make sanitary milk at a 

 profit at that price, and under reasonable conditions to be 

 imposed by the State Board of Health and the city Board of 

 Health, acting in conjunction. If you ask me to produce 

 Jersey and Guernsey milk of that quality at 50 cents a can, 

 I won't do it. 



Secretary Ellsworth. I have a word to say in regard 

 to the paper, Mr. Weld. That paper brought out clearly two 

 points : the first was that the milk business ought to be car- 

 ried on on a business basis, — that it is a business in itself ; 



