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soiiiewliat more favorable than they are here in Massachu- 

 setts. I do not believe that the question of price is wholly 

 responsible for the apparent decline. I believe it is the un- 

 rest anionij; the farming population, a desire to get away 

 from milking cows, to do something else. The question of 

 price may be, and probably is, in part responsible, but I 

 maintain that it is not wholly responsible; there are these 

 other influences back of that, and the general tendency and 

 desire is to get away from farming ojierations. 



Mr. P. M. HapcWo^d. Don't you think that the fact that 

 it hasn't been profitable is the reason for this unrest ? 



Mr. Smith. We would like to hear from Mr. Harwood. 



Mr. IlAr.wooD. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: I didn't 

 expect to be called upon, but I asked the question because, 

 as the speaker has said, there is unrest. To my mind the 

 main reason for this is the fact that a given amount of nutri- 

 tion in the form of milk sells for less than it does in any other 

 form of animal food, where the nutritive ratio is the same 

 and the digestibility is the same. ]\rake the milk business 

 profitable and people will engage in it. People are not 

 going to be satisfied with any condition where circumstances 

 do not assure a fair profit. 



The matter of transportation has been brought up. ISTow 

 if something could be done whereby the present unsatisfac- 

 tory transportation conditions could be rectified, would it 

 not be possible even then for Canadian, northern Vermont, 

 northern ISTew Hampshire and eastern Maine farmers to 

 produce milk and place it upon the Boston market for less 

 than can be done by Massachusetts producers, even after the 

 long-haul transportation charges are added ? I don't believe, 

 important as the transportation question is, that this would 

 solve the whole question. Education is necessary, and I 

 know that the people of iMassachusetts are hungry for it. 

 The State Board of Agriculture recently issued a small edi- 

 tion of a pamphlet on the "Food Value of Milk." It was 

 not two weeks before it was all gone and a call for a new 

 edition of 25,000 copies was given, and the greater part of 

 that edition is alreadv distributed. Consumers are learning 



