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means of increasing the manufacture of a superior quality of goods, be 

 they cheese or butter, was a conscientious, minute inspection ; it therefore 

 follows that the inspector should be a man possessed of the necessary 

 qualifications. 



At present we have not enough inspectors, and some of them perhaps 

 are not quite so competent as might be desired, although others are 

 thoroughly well skilled in their business. They are few in number when 

 compared with the number of syndicated factories. This is what I propose : 

 In the very centre of the district where dairying is held in high estimation, 

 at St. Hyacinthe, the cradle of the Dairymen's Association, alongside of the 

 Experimental Farm of the College of St. Hyacinthe, we are about to estab- 

 lish a school where the manufacture of butter and cheese will be taught. 

 This school, I may say, en passant, is well advanced in its organisation. 

 The inspectors will attend it, especially in the winter months, when they 

 will not be on their travels. They will be kept au courant of all the new 

 processes, of all the improvements introduced into the business. The co- 

 operation of its skilled professors will be generously lent to us by the 

 Dominion G-overument for the benefit of this school. Again, for the use of 

 this school, the Dairymen's Association has already retained the services of 

 one of the best makers of the Dominion, and even of the United States. 

 Our course of instruction, then, will be excellent, both in theory and in 

 practice. If the House, which is listening to me with so much attention, 

 will kindly lend me its aid, will put its shoulder manfully to the wheel, I 

 can promise that in two years we shall be " giving points " to the Province 

 of Ontario in the making of butter and cheese. Before two years are over, 

 we shall even have goods as highly esteemed as those made at Ingersol, 

 the centre of the Ontario dairy indvistry. Only the other day. Professor 

 Robertson told us that, as to some goods, we had beaten Ontario. Not, 

 indeed, in the bulk of our manufactures, but we have shown that we are 

 capable of contending to advantage even with that rich province, a contest, 

 the high prize of which is the prosperity of our country. The organisation 

 of which I am speaking will assuredly bring about this result. 



The inspectors, after leaving the St. Hyacinthe school, will travel 

 round their syndicates diffusing sound ideas, and insuring us throughout 

 the country the manufacture of an article that shall be always uniformly 

 good. 



En passant, I wish to draw your attention to the little care that is 

 generally taken about the manufacture of the cheese boxes. 



The best goods, as regards the market, are not only those that are the 



