No. 4.] MILK PROBLEM. 41 



Mr. P. M. IlArvWOOD. I am glad the gentleman spoke as 

 he did, for it exactly bears out the argument which I have 

 presented here, and you will notice that he is getting prac- 

 tically 7 cents a qnart for his milk at wholesale. Other 

 farmers in Massachusetts ought also to he able to do this. 

 Then the industry will be placed on a sound basis and all 

 will be as happy as ^^r. Baker. 



Mr. John J. Eewin. My experience in selling milk to 

 the contractors is that they won't stop the car where I live 

 in Wayland ; they say they don't want any milk from a place 

 so close to Boston, 



Mr. A. W. Bartlett. I had the pleasure last year in 

 the Legislature of fighting what was called the Milk Con- 

 sumers' Association, and it was said at the time of the hear- 

 ing before the committee that there were no consumers 

 present, that the consumers were simply represented by one 

 man, or by counsel. ISTow, it was my privilege to work 

 against the putting of the farmers in a position to be sen- 

 tenced to jail for doing something which they could not 

 know, at the time they were sending their milk to market, 

 that they were doing. I want to say that I am a milk pro- 

 ducer. I keep a herd of 20 coavs, and I can see that the State 

 Board of Agriculture ought to take hold of this question of 

 transportation, so that Massachusetts should not pay 7 cents 

 a can to get her milk to market when Canada can get it here 

 for 5 ; and as a member of the Board, I am willing to do any- 

 thing that I can along that line. 



EvExi^^G Session, 



Secretary Eleswortk. It is my pleasure to introduce to 

 you this evening ]\Ir. E. II. Race of Xorth Egremont, who 

 represents the Ilousatonic Agricultural Society, which always 

 holds such a successful fair at Great Barrington. Mr. Race. 



Mr,. R. H, Race, Mr. Secretary and Eellow Members of 

 the Board, Ladies and Gentlemen: It gives me great pleasure 

 to stand before you and look into your faces, and I was won- 

 dering, as I sat here, why it is that I am up here when 

 other men whom I always used to sit in the back seat and 



