THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 139 



CARE OF MILK ON THE FARM. 



By 

 W. W. Marple, Muncie, Ind. 



President : A very delightful paper. While we have had 

 some good. ones we are saving some of the best for the last. 

 You all know Mr. Marple. He has come a long distance to talk 

 to us today. 



Mr. Marple : Eugene Field, the very distinguished and 

 ever to be remembered American poet and humorist, whose pro- 

 duction of "Little Boy Blue" made him famous and gave him a 

 place in the hearts of the people of two continents, and will per- 

 petuate his memory throughout all time, was at one time the 

 guest of Royalty in England at dinner, where among other 

 delicacies there was provided an elegant, tempting dish of straw- 

 berries. The hostess, noticing that he did not eat them, said to 

 him: "Mr. Field, don't you like strawberries?" He replied: 

 "Yes, but I was just thinking how they would spoil the taste 

 for prunes." 



I am thinking today how this audience (after a rich treat 

 of strawberries) have had their taste spoiled for prunes, and I 

 offer you my condolence for what you have to suffer, and my 

 apology for having nothing to offer at this junction of this 

 wonderful banquet, but a dish of prunes. 



The care of milk on a farm is a subject that interests the 

 dairyman or the producer, the distributor, the manufacturer 

 and the consumer. Primarily, the most intensely interested per- 

 son is the dairyman, and from his standpoint and on his behalf, 

 I bring you this message, and on him, whose cause I am delight- 

 ed to champion, will I depend for an abundance of good, clear, 

 pure, rich cream to make this dish of prunes more palatable 

 and more acceptable. 



