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below what you may call a line of safety. There are barns, places where 

 milk is produced that are intolerable. We want the Dairy Association 

 to do something about it. There are some people who are not only dis 

 gracing the profession but injuring your reputation and taking the mone> 

 out of your pockets. I read of Armour Company trying to get possession 

 of a lot of creameries. Why do they want creameries? I believe it 

 is the result of the study of these conditions. I believe the dairy people 

 should do something to free the profession from its worst features. 

 I don't mean those features that come into the business because of in- 

 dividuals who belong to this Association, but the hangers-on that are 

 hitched on to this profession, who ought to be got rid of. I am talking 

 plain because if you knew as much of the inside of this situation as 

 well as I do. you would not hesitate a minute to see that they were 

 sidetracked. The dairy profession needs this thing. It needs a system 

 of inspection that will inspect. 



Our investigation work not only in the field, but in work that Mr. 

 Fraser has done leads to this conclusion that the dairy profession, 

 as well as the public, needs an inspection that will inspect. I think 

 I will have to stop. I have tried to bring out this point that we are 

 teaching those things that will be the most helpful to put the dairy pro- 

 fession ahead. It ought to go ahead, we all agree on that. It ought to 

 have greater development than it has today, and it will have in the near 

 future. Cows must be better in order that milk be produced cheaper. 

 It must be cleaner in order to be higher priced. Let us use the influence 

 we have and seriously act upon the best judgment we have. 



Before I stop, I would like to say, I have no desire to make you think 

 we are doing wonderful things, but we have chosen to bestow our work 

 on a few lines and on the lines that mean most to the business. You 

 and we are to work together in this matter. We shall hang together or 

 hang separately, we are all in the same boat; interested in the same things. 

 Mr. Fraser and Erf and Glover are not working here simply for their 

 own reputations, but working simply for those things that will make 

 the dairy profession a little better and more profitable for those employ- 

 ed in it and the public through them. 



You know some of this investigation work is carried on with money 

 obtained by this so-called Bill 315, the one section devoted to dairying. 



