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in here, about fourteen or fifteen years old, who were pay- 

 ing strict attention to what was being said, would get 

 enough to in years pay big for what they had heard here. 

 This afternoon closes our program as you know. I 

 want you to get all we have to say. Now we will begin 

 by introducing Professor R. E. Caldwell, the man that is 

 second to nobody in the dairy business — Professor Cald- 

 well. (Applause.) 



DAIRY INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT 



Professor R. E. Caldwell, Waukegan 



Mr. O'Hair, ladies and gentlemen: We have such a 

 scattering audience here that it makes it very, very diffi- 

 cult indeed, to speak, and if those few of you who are 

 present would assist me a little I believe I could perform 

 for you much better. There are three of you over there; 

 come right on down, boys, because I certainly like to be 

 more intimate with my crowd than I can be with ninety 

 per cent empty seats. 



Your President has just stated that you have had 

 quite an extensive array of speakers. I think the pro- 

 gram of yesterday was one of the most unusual dairy pro- 

 grams that was ever staged any place, considering the 

 type of topics that was presented, and I believe just for 

 the few minutes that I want to take your time, that I 

 would best just review some of the various points that have 

 been stressed here at this convention, and pick out if I 

 can, or renew and emphasize in your mind some of the 

 points that should be kept uppermost from a practical 

 standpoint. 



Take the dairy industry in the first place; what has 

 been the cause of its development? There is only one 

 thing that is back of the dairy industry, and that is the 

 need of a good type of human food. When our forefathers 

 settled in New England, what did they do? They began 



