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enforcement of strict rules and popular demand and con- 

 stant encouragement, with also public decoration and 

 acknowledgment of successful achievements of real 

 merit, freely given. A highly successful breeder was 

 placed in the front ranks of prominent men. The present 

 source of supply of very many of the cows that make up 

 our milch stock, is very largely from distant breeders, 

 and beyond state limits, of the condition of whose barns 

 we have no guarantee as to their freedom from disease 

 germs, or as to whose care in early training of the live- 

 stock we must be equally uncertain. 



If we can only establish a price for milk in proportion 

 to its intrinsic value, shall we not be establishing a value 

 for carefully bred cows that will enable the farmer to se- 

 sure a price for milk which shall more justly remunerate 

 oareful home breeding and milk farming. It seems to 

 me that this suggests more profit to the milk producer 

 and protection to quality in milk. 



With less advantageous surroundings for the making 

 of milk in our more thickly populated districts, we find 

 the greatest demand for it and the increased difficulty to 

 secure that milk which is of pure quality and such as 

 meets the wishes of the consumers. One cause is the 

 bad condition of many cow stables which exist in the 

 more immediate vicinity of our cities and large towns, 

 where animals are forced as to kinds of food and fed with 

 the poorest quality of air, and where their surroundings 

 are not otherwise properly healthful. 



Such cheaply raised lacteal fluid tends to lower the value 

 of the honest product, coming from the forest and free 

 country atmosphere. Is not this a temptation to some] 

 one to extend the quantity to meet the quality that is 

 lower, where the price received per quart is not the best. 



The well fed. well cared foi' eow is at a disadvantage 

 unless the market for her product is directly that of the 

 consumer, or until sucli time as her product is sold for its 



