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duct just exactly what you can satisfy the public it is worth as a 

 food product. 



Down in New York they are beginning to realize now that 

 it is not a crime to sell skimmilk, notwithstanding the statutes of 

 New York made it a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment. 

 It is the cheapest food of all foods at $i a hundred. It is up to 

 you to teach the public what your product is worth. When they 

 furnish a milk stew the milk has twice the food value of the 

 oysters and they ought to be willing to pay twice the price of the 

 oysters for the milk. 



When the time is come, and we are getting ready to have 

 something to say about it, don't let us be foolish and assume that 

 there is no one to consider except the fellow who runs the cream- 

 ery or the one who peddles the milk and ourselves, because the 

 main factor is scattered everywhere, the public who consumes our 

 product and without it there won't be any of us in this business 

 very long. 



We have got, in the first place, to produce and provide a 

 product that is valuable for food purposes, and w^e have got to 

 teach the public its value — when we have done that there won't 

 be any question about the rest of it. 



I am not going to take up any more of your time, but I have 

 come a long distance down here to meet the breeders of Illinois. 

 I have been interested in meeting them, and I am very grateful 

 that I have had an opportunity to address you, and I sincerely 

 trust that you men who belong to the Holstein-Friesian Associa- 

 tion will try and make it your business to visit Worcester, Massa- 

 chusetts, next year in June when we have our annual meeting 

 there, and we want to demonstrate to the people of New England, 

 where in years past, was the center of this industry, the develop- 

 ment which we have made. We carried the National Dairy 

 Show down there last year to show them the necessity of taking 

 and rehabilitating the industry that had departed from them, 

 and I want you all to come down to the National meeting of the 

 Holstein-Friesian Association, and I want you men from Illinois, 

 Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, to give some appreciation of the 

 success of this great industry to the source from which it sprung. 



I was up talking to the students of the University of Wis- 

 consin, and I told them what I thought had assured 



