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enough. I feel like saying these things as long as the president 

 called me up. I thank you. 



By the President: — We are indebted to you, sir. We all 

 feel as if we were students. You have outlined a campaign, 

 and we ought to have suggestions. 



By the President: — Mr. Wilson has very kindly made 

 arrangements for any of us who wish to accept the invitation to 

 visit the penitentiary tomorrow morning at 10 :30 o'clock. A 

 car will leave here at that time. I hope none of you will absent 

 yourselves from the meeting at the Exhibit Hall in order to 

 take advantage of this opportunity, but you ought to go some 

 time to visit the place. 



We will now listen to Mr. C. B. Lane, Assistant Chief of 

 the Dairy Division of the U. S. Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Lane has very kindly offered to give every support 

 from his Department to start this new campaign for milk at our 

 State Fair. I was speaking to him about it today. 



A MOVEMENT FOR CLEAN MILK. 



By M. C. B. Lane, Asst. Chief, Dairy Division, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Washington, D. C. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : — It gives me pleas- 

 ure to meet with you today, and I have here a paper I have 

 prepared on a movement for clean milk, which I will read to 

 you. 



In any reform movement, the object cannot be accomplished 

 by sensational methods. If this were the case, we should have 

 had clean milk long ago. For the dairy has been a target for 

 many years and accused of being the source of practically every 

 contagious disease, the cause of high death rates in our cities, 

 and put down as the most dangerous thing in existence. Some 

 of the things that have been said are true, and some are not. 

 Some people never see anything but dirt in the dairy. Men 



