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scoring of the package. There are of course differences of opin- 

 ion about all these matters, but I take it a man makes butter 

 for the money there is in it, and the most money is made by the 

 man who caters to the public taste and satisfies it. Butter, as 

 we found it, is not what it is going to be in two weeks or two 

 months, but I think that nine judges out of ten will score it 

 according to what it is at the time of judging. 



The question of grain is very easily settled. 



The question of color I think ought not to cut any great 

 figure in scoring butter, because the demand differs in different 

 parts of th9 country. In St. Louis there are some few who 

 demand high colored butter. We are gradually coming down 

 in that regard to where the color is just about what it is for 

 Chicago. 



The demand in New Orleans is different again and so on 

 through the country. The question arises what right has the 

 judge to determine what is perfect color unless there is a specific 

 understanding as to what point the butter is scored for. I 

 fbelieve that the judge should bear down hard only upon the 

 points of flavor and texture, the others being almost entirely 

 local questions of taste. In conclusion let me say that the awards 

 made yesterday should satisfy any who have butter on exhibition. 



When a man gets into the ninety's on his score, he has no 

 great room for complaint, he comes very near making good 

 .butter. I believe a hundred points has been given, but in very 

 Jew instances and that is right, the standard should be high. 



I trust that the work which the judges have done will meet 

 with your approval. It has been unbiased, we did not know 

 one package from another. It has been simply a question of 

 merit. 



Our government has given $100,000 to the sufferers in 

 Klondike. I say we have a Klondike right here in our dairy 

 interests, a Klondike that will probably put one hundred millions 

 of gold in the treasury of the United States in the coming year, 

 and so I feel that we have a right to push forward this interest 

 ,and to ask that a proper appropriation should be made by the 



