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making without taking testing of milk first. Dairy bacteria too must 

 be taken. 



Now there is a class of work that this department is doing that some 

 of you know a good deal about. The field work that is in Mr. Glover's 

 immediate charge. I don't know whether you want to call it investiga- 

 tion or teaching work. I call it both. The surest way of teaching a 

 thing is to go where the fellow is. I am one who believes the most 

 direct and the quickest way to influence the people of the country is 

 to go into that country and work with the men in that Country; work 

 things over, and get into the problems as they are on the ground; tell 

 this man one thing, ask him another; work together. The world was 

 not made in a minute, and evolution is slow if good for anything. 



This field work that Mr. Glover is doing is eminently instructive 

 work. Call it by any name you please; it is both. Mr. Glover in his 

 field work is learning lots of things and teaching some things I think. 

 We . are getting a good deal of information from his reports, and many 

 of the dairy people are getting information from him. He acts as kind 

 of a clearing house too. He asks Jones what Smith is doing, and Smith 

 what Jones is doing. He is able to offer a hint there and catch two 

 at the other place. We regard them both as investigation and teach- 

 ing work. It is not intended to be understood that he has been sent to 

 the northern part of the state to tell them how to do their business. 

 He has gone there to make certain investigations of dairy conditions. 

 He has gone there to learn all he can and be helpful, and he has been, 

 I am sure. 



This work is on the investigation side pure and simple, on the 

 side of getting information not yet in existence in order that we may 

 know we have been carrying on certain lines of investigation. All 

 experiments at first are slow and results are hard to obtain. We have 

 got to be careful in the new things we learn, that they shall be true. 



If anything Mr. Fraser is conservative in, it is getting at new 

 things. He set himself to ask and answer a few questions in the dairying 

 business. He has not attempted so many things, and I ought to say 

 that the investigation work of this department is in Mr. Fraser's and Mr. 

 Glover's hands, because Mr. Erf has not been able to get on in investiga- 

 tions on account of lack of funds. Mr. Fraser has settled some things 



