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of policy suggested above by saying : " What I kept, that I lost, what I gave 

 away, that I have." All values come from use. Possession is only a pre- 

 liminary incident. When the incidental possession becomes an end and not 

 a means, keeping is losing. When use is tempered by wise discretion, and 

 dictated by an appreciation of the value of the whole man, using is keeping. 

 Join the associations therefore, and come up to the conventions. If it 

 sometimes seems to cost more than it comes to, remember that if you come 

 with the fraternal spirit, it will come to more than it costs. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Maj. Alvord : Mr. President, believing in the educational uses of con- 

 ventions, and desiring to contribute to that line, I brought with me, as a 

 matter of interest and information, eight or ten varieties of fancy cheese, 

 chiefly American imitations of foreign cheese. With one exception, these 

 cheese are American made. The manufacture of these cheese was com- 

 menced in New York for the purpose of trying to find a market for our sur- 

 plus milk, and the farmers who supplied the milk, have, during the past 

 year, averaged $1.54 per hundred pounds for their milk. It is merely a new 

 way of putting the milk on the market. 



Mr. Broomell : Mr. Chairman, while we are under the head of miscel- 

 laneous, I would like to make a brief statement for the benefit of the dairy 

 interests of the northwest. Word has been industriously circulated, I am 

 told, during this winter, by men who had some ulterior motive in view, to 

 the effect that the butter known as Elgin creamery butter, was, to a greater 

 or less extent, being adulterated with lard in the factory where it is manu- 

 factured. We have a reputation on Elgin creamery butter which we cannot 

 afford to lose. It has taken years to build it up and it is world-wide ; there- 

 fore, in order to prevent this effort going any farther, the Board of Trade at 

 its last meeting took action in reference to the matter, which action was 

 unanimous and emphatic, to the effect that the manufacturer, who is a mem- 

 ber of the board, being found adulterating butter with lard, or any other 

 foreign substance, would be subject to suspension of membership, and that 

 the directors have power to appoint a committee of three inspectors, whose 

 duties it should be to search for any evidences of adulteration, either in a 

 factory or by the inspection of goods that had been manufactured, and that 

 any party found guilty, or refusing to allow these inspectors access to the 

 factory for such inspection, should be expelled from membership in the 

 Board of Trade. This also^ was made to apply to cheese. I make this state- 

 ment in justice to the factorymen who stand by straight goods. 



Mr. Kice : I am the bearer of a message from a groceryman in Roches- 

 ter, New York, who has bought a great deal of butter in Elgin. He says : 

 '' Tell them to make better butter than they have been making in the last 

 few months." 



Mr. Broomell : I want to say that it is recognized that we are making 

 poorer butter this last fall than ever, but it is all down in grade, and it is 

 because the feed is poor. We cannot get the best grade of butter out of 

 sour, soft corn. 



Me. Johnson : Such-articles as I found in a paper the other day encour- 



