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by the stench. The above is not an isolated case," says the Doctor. "I 

 could take you through this beautiful county of Orange, which yields the 

 greater portion of the milk shipped to New York City, and show you similar 

 examples by the score; and these, I resrret to say, are very common among 

 the better educated and thrifty class of farmers." 



While on this subject you will please allow me to say that no strictly gilt- 

 edged butter has, or ever can be, made in factories or rooms where smoking 

 of tobacco is allowed. Such smoke is absorbed to a greater or less extent by 

 the milk, cream, or butter, and it is a fact beyond controversion that such 

 smokers have but a faint idea of the effect produced on the butter made in 

 such a place, as their sensibilities by the use of that noxious weed are so 

 blunted that they are incapable of detecting its injurious effect on the 

 butter. 



You may s^y that this is a broad assertion on my part, but let us look for 

 a moment at what Dr. Dio Lewis sa> s on this subject of blunted sensibility 

 from the use of tobacco : " Within half a century," says the doctor, " no 

 young man addicted to the use of tobacco has graduated at the head of his 

 class in Hnrvard college; though five out of six have used it, the chances, you 

 see, were five in six that a smoker would graduate at the head of his class, if 

 tobacco does no harm. But during half a century not one vicdm of tobacco 

 was able to com^ out ahead." Is not this a terrible stifling of sensibility? 

 Can we afford it ? But I must pass, not intending at this time and place to 

 give you an essay on the deleterious effects of accumulating nicotine on the 

 human syst^ m by the use of tobacco, but only to invite your attention to its 

 baneful effects on the product of the dairy. Please give this subjer^t your 

 most careful thought; if I am wrong I will stand corrected; we live to learn, 

 and learn to live. 



United States Consul to Great Britain reports that in 1880 England im- 

 ported $60,705,170 worth of butter. Of this amount the United States fur- 

 nished only $6,250,000 worth, this being somethiitg less than one-tenth. He 

 further says the Normans and Danes are perhaps the best butter makers in 

 the world. The Danes supply India and the Brazils with sweet cream, un- 

 salted butter, hermetically sealed in tin cans. 



The fresh butter of Normandy commands a higher price in the London 

 market than that made in England. Why is this ? Why should the Danes 

 and Normans be credited with better butter than the English or even our 

 country ? 



We have heard it areued that the grasses of those countries were sweeter 

 and better than ours grown on our alluvial prairie soil. I pause to ask how 

 this can be, as the surface of the kingdom of Denmark is an almost unbroken 

 plain, in most places but a few feet above the ocean, the soil almost 

 wholly alluvial. 



Then what shall we say of Normandy, located as she is along the side of 

 the English chann- 1, between forfj^-eight and fiffy degrees north latitude ? 



Looking at this from our standpoint we are forced to the conclusion that 

 the pasturage of those countries is not superior to ours. Then again we can 

 say in regard to other food for the cow that no be ter cereals are produced 

 than can be grown in our State. This holding true then, if our butter is not 

 fully equal to the best in the markets, we must look for the trouble some- 

 where between the milk-pail and packing-tub, or in one or both of these. 



