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last a great while. I know the ability of the average man to 

 kick. 



Mr. Chapman: Is not this a good time to make it known 

 that Mr. Monrad is a United States officer, and I want also 

 to suggest, wouldn't it be a good time to have a State officer 

 appointed to help fix up this difficulty between the creamery 

 man and the patron? 



Mr. Monrad: I think it would be a pretty hard thing to 

 stand between Mr. Johnson's kick and the patron's kick, but 

 I am glad to say what some creamery men here may not know, 

 that the National Government has a dairy division of the 

 Agricultural Department, and I have been appointed for six 

 months as field agent, as it is called, and any creamery that 

 wants to have a meeting of their patrons and discuss matters, 

 or any patrons who want to have a meeting and discuss 

 matters with the creamery men, can call on me to attend such 

 a meeeting and try and help them out. 



Mr. Johnson: Which side are you on? 



Mr. Monrad: I am on the right side. All it will cost 

 you is my expenses while 1 am away from home. 



The Chairman: If no one else wants to talk, I will do a 

 little talking myself. I think there is a great deal that might 

 be done by the creamery men in the line of educating their 

 patrons. There are many things that the patrons do not 

 fully understand; there are comparatively few, I believe, who 

 realize the susceptibility of milk to absorb odors from sur- 

 roundings. I have had milk that I could detect the odors of 

 the hog pen in and we have traced down and found it con- 

 tracted that odor from being set in an open vat over night to 

 cool near an open window where the air passed in from, the hog 

 yard. This was in the Dairy School, and we were able to de- 

 tect that odor and tell just what it was. Not simply to say that 

 it was bad, but able to tell what it was. These things show 

 the necessity of great care and also show how little we know. 

 This experience was a great surprise to me, because I did not 

 realize previous to that that there was so much danger along 

 that line, and I am sure that there is danger also from the 

 animal being in unsanitary conditions or surroundings. 

 While I do not know that I could bring proof that would stand 



