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looking fellow who had more in his mouth than above his 

 mouth, — that 3,000 babies in Boston died from drinking 

 milk from cows. When that man was questioned, he 

 couldn't ffive a reason that could be taken in court that 

 would show that one baby died from drinking milk, — not 

 one, — and yet he made that statement. Now, as Brother 

 West says, 3 ou let these statements appear in the papers, 

 where these nervous people will read them, and then you 

 tell them that the milk is all right, and are they going to 

 believe it ? Not much ! 



Mr. Dawley. We find, following this campaign for a 

 cleaner milk in New York State than we have had on for 

 twenty years, that in the greater city of New York, wdiere 

 Ave get the figures of these things, the consumption of milk 

 per capita has increased nearly three hundredfold in those 

 years. I want to say, friends, if you have dirty milk, don't 

 tell people you have clean milk. Do as I say in my re- 

 marks, — a good promise, well filled to the dot, is worth 

 more to a man's reputation than the broadest claim that 

 could be disproved by a city bacteriologist. Let us all make 

 good milk, — just as good as we possibly can. If a man , 

 will make his product just as good as he possibly could, 

 make it right, he will be apt to get good returns. The thing 

 that too many men are up against to-day in this matter of 

 production is the fact that the dealers do not discriminate 

 between the farms where the conditions are the best and 

 those where they are the poorest ; and the man who makes 

 milk under filthy conditions gets just as much per pound at 

 the shipping station as does the man who takes the very best 

 possible care of his milk. That is unjust, and will not be 

 true nmch longer. 



Question. Will you explain the King system of venti- 

 lation ? 



Mr. Daavley. Briefly ; I cannot enter into the whole 

 thing, because we haven't time, — it would take a lecture 

 itself. The King system of ventilation is one whereby we 

 take advantage of the outside currents of air in changing the 

 air of the stable. In the first place, the stable must be practi- 

 cally absolutely tight ; you cannot otherwise install the King 



