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is true of your Association. Men do not join an Association 

 unless they are convinced that they arc going to be benefited by 

 belonging to that Association. Now if you dairymen will back 

 your Association, and your Association will have its Legislative 

 Committee, which will confer with the Legislative Committee 

 of the manufacturers of dairy products, then go before your 

 Legislature and demand laws for the grading of cream and 

 paying according to grade, you will give the Dairy Commis- 

 sioner of the State the right kind of law to whip into line those 

 parties who will not grade cream. Moral persuasion is very 

 good. It comes through education, but restrictive legislation 

 will cause a greater moral persuasion, and you have to have 

 those together before you will get anywhere in the producing 

 of a better quality of cream. 



In regard to the educational development along dairy lines, 

 that is, the care in the cleanliness of the production and hand- 

 ling of milk and cream, cleanliness is the most important factor ; 

 cleanliness in the production, clean barns or milking sheds, clean 

 cows, clean milkers, clean cans and dairy utensils, is the first 

 requisite in producing a clean product. In some states they 

 have a state sanitary law which compels the farmer to clean up 

 or they will put him out of business or fine him. But I believe 

 in education first and legislation next, because these two factor^ 

 go hand in hand, and it depends on the producers and the manu- 

 facturers and consumers to see that they have proper legislation 

 regarding the production of a better quality of cream. By 

 keeping out the dirt, by using preventative measures, you will 

 keep out of the milk a large number of undesirable bacteria. In 

 this case an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and 

 by producing that milk under sanitary conditions you will be 

 able to produce a better quality of cream or dairy products. 



At the Illinois Experiment Station some time ago experi- 

 ments were carried on in regard to the advantage of wiping the 

 udder of the cow with a damp cloth before milking. Clean cows 

 and dirty cows were used. They had 3j4 times more dirt in the 

 receptacle with the dirty cows, than with the clean cows, and 

 with very dirty cows, 94J/2 times as much dirt from those dirty 



