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any better in this country, but I suspect not as well. I tell you 

 when you get down to business and make clean milk, the con- 

 sumers of milk will use much more of it. I have experiences 

 with my milk among little babes that are amusing and instruc- 

 tive. I have known in my own town of some instances where a 

 babe that was sick would be put on my milk at the recommenda- 

 tion of the doctor. When the child recovered the parents would 

 undertake to put it back on common milk, and that little child, 

 not able to talk, would spit it right out. My little grandchildren 

 were raised on this milk. I remember they went into one of the 

 best families of DeKalb to visit, and take tea. The family keep 

 their own Jersey cow and have their own man milk it, but these 

 little boys took one mouthful of that milk and would not touch 

 any more of it. They had been well enough trained so they did 

 not make any remarks, but their mother was mortified for fear 

 they would. But you take those little children and their taste 

 is delicate; they will detect things we will not notice at all. 



I don't know why it is not within the province of our colleges 

 and experiment stations to put out literature among consumers 

 of milk to assist their understanding. Don't mike us dairymen 

 do all the educating of the consumers of milk. 



Mr. Wiggins : — I had some little experience in certified milk, 

 and you can encourage the experiment stations to tell people 

 how to use milk, how to take care of it and how to feed it, but 

 they will not read what you do publish. The only way I -can see 

 to get at that is for every man who produces sanitary milk to get 

 out little pamphlets, such as Mr. Gurler is doing, and make a 

 systematic canvass of iheir customers. Ask them if they have 

 read that article, and if they have, take up a little discussion with 

 them. Of course it is impossible to do that with a large trade, 

 but so far as possible get around it in that way. Get a little thing 

 that a housewife will read and which will interest her. They 

 will not take up a pamphlet from an experiment station and read 

 it; they say it is too scientific, they cannot get any sense out of it. 

 It is up to the producer to get the consumer to appreciate and take 

 care of this good milk after it is properly produced. 



