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unsaltcd batter. This trade would not care if it was as 

 white as paper. Another class of customers would not have 

 it at all. So we have to have a variety of the same quality 

 of l)utter, in order to suit different tastes. 



Mr. Gkinnell. Mr. Horton, who is a member of the 

 Dairy Bureau of our State, will preside over this meeting 

 to-day. 



Mr. D. A. HoRTON (of Northampton). This is the dairy 

 day of the winter meeting. It is so laid down in our pro- 

 gramme. I believe the subject of dairying is of more im- 

 portance than we usually think it is. A very prominent 

 man of Iowa made a statement before the Farmers National 

 Congress in regard to the dairy interests of the United 

 States. ,He said : "If all the gold, silver and bonds of the 

 country were sunk out of sight, in one year the cows or 

 their products would more than balance the loss." . So it 

 seems that dairying is of no small account in the United 

 States. 



The first speaker we have this morning needs no introduc- 

 tion to this audience. It gives me great pleasure now to 

 present to you Maj. Henry E. Alvord, chief of the dairy 

 division, United States Department of Agriculture. 



Major Alvord. Mr. President, members of the State 

 Board, ladies and gentlemen : A friend said to me yesterday, 

 "The person who took second premium here to-day took 

 second premium at the former fair." But that man has 

 made an advance. The second premium yesterday, yes, the 

 third or the fourth man, had a higher grade of goods than 

 the one who took the first premium awarded in this building 

 seventeen years ago. If a person in the general advance 

 holds the same rank, to use a common expression, he is cer- 

 tainly keeping up with the procession. 



