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a creamery therefore claims large and peculiar advantages, and offers a price 

 for milk or cream markedly above the ordinary price paid for it by other 

 creameries, you may be sure there is something illegitimate about it. It may 

 be done lo drum up business, to beat a rival, or it may be a downriatht swin- 

 dle. It surely will not be lasting, and the operator intends at some time to 

 recoup for himself. 



It is to be remembered that the dairy business is not one which can be 

 taken up and laid doA/n hastily without greater or less inconvenience, ex- 

 pense or loss. Like most otlier branches of agriculture, it must be engaged 

 in with the purpose of a steady, long, strong pull in order to be a success. It 

 has the advantage of springing directly from the earth without fictitious 

 help, props, or governmeutal protection, so called. It taxes no other indus- 

 try for its own benefit and has expanded to its present magnificent propor- 

 tions in spite of the burdens laid upon it from outside sources. 



But it is written, " And Satan came also." Nothing could more aptly 

 describe the full influence of adulteration which has come upon this industry. 

 It has come clothed in deceit and fraud, the very habiliments of the devil. It 

 can be exterminated no more than sin itself. It must be fought by exposing 

 its nature ; by stamping upon it its own features. Wise legislation I believe 

 will be in the direction of government inspection ar;d the sure and prompt 

 punishment of traud. The interest of the creamery patron is more deeply 

 involved in this matter than that of any other class, just as in other branches 

 of production the perils and losses by fraud, deterioration and adulteration 

 ultimately fall back upon the producer of the raw product. The apa hy now 

 existing among the producers of milk and cream is ominous of evil and dis- 

 couraging to those who are working in the interest of unadulterated goods. 

 We have no doubt that the time will come when n^t only the afiulteintion of 

 butter, but the adulteration of other food products as well, will only be car- 

 ried on under the stamp and inspection of government supervision. 



The thoughts I have presented are intended to be sug jestive rather than 

 dogmatic, and I leave the subject with the hope thit the intelligence of the 

 average dairyman may be as active in tracing and comprehending ihe suitler 

 principles of trade and commerce relating to the produc s of his labor as it 

 is in comprehending the more immediate facts of tiis calling, such as breed- 

 ing, feeding and the handling of the raw products of hi^ herd. 



MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. 



S. S. NORTHRTJP, of Wisconsin : Mr. President, yoii, in your address, 

 mentioned the matter of feeding bone dust to cows. I wish you would ex- 

 plain how you feed that— in what proportion ? 



The President : About five or six years ago, I lost about sixty cows in 

 my herd from that disease which sometimes prevails amontr cows, spoken of, 

 and the thought occurred to me, from its effect on the grape, that ground 

 bone dust might help my cows. I obtained some bone dust from Chicago, by 

 the barrel, and I commenced feeding my cows a double spoonful ground fine 

 and mixed with br m, twice a week ; and I have continued that to this time, 

 with the loss of a cow only now and then. I don't know that jt was the bone 

 dust ; I fed the same feed as before— corn meal, oats and bran with hay. 



