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in the past has been that we have educated our sons for lawyers, 

 doctors and bankers, but have not educated them to be farmers 

 and creamerymen, and it is just as necessary to know how to 

 take care of the product of the dairy as to practice law, or to 

 preach, or do anything else. 



Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I thank you. 



The President : — I want to thank Commissioner Jones for 

 his presence here today. He has sent his assistants to other 

 meetings and they have treated us very nicely, both in their 

 talks and work. The dairymen have no fault to find with the 

 work of the commissioner ; the only fault we have ever found 

 is, while the law distinctly asked that the dairymen have one 

 of the places, we did not get a dairyman, but we do not know 

 that the commissioner is to blame for that; possible that goes 

 beyond him. 



I believe he will work with us if we work with him. 

 Possibly we have the right man in the right place. I am not 

 saying anything, nor do I wish to say anything, in regard to his 

 assistant, Mr. Patterson. He is trying to do his work as well 

 as he knows how. He was appointed politically, of course, and 

 he is doing his work to the best of his ability. 



Mr. Long : — I move that a committee of three be appointed 

 by the chairman to go to Spring-field, as the commissioner has 

 suggested, and co-operate with his department along the lines 

 suggested. 



The President : — At whose expense, did you say ? 



Motion seconded by Mr. Gurler. 



Mr. Thurston : — May I ask Commissioner Jones this ques- 

 tion? If this committee goes down and asks for dairy inspec- 

 tors, what certainty has the association that dairymen will be 

 appointed? If the state law is ignored in one case, why would 

 it not be ignored in another? The state law says plainly the 

 assistant of the state pure food commissioner, other than the 

 chemist, shall be a dairy expert. This law was entirely set aside 

 and ignored in the appointment of Mr. Patterson, whom no one 



