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the standard! of the world and it was made by her dairy schools and her 

 professors training the people. Did Denmark say: "That was enough,"' 

 and brag about it? Bless you no. She says: "What can we do next?" 

 "We feed a good many pigs; couldn't we put pork products on the market, 

 of the world after butter?" That was a pretty serious matter. They 

 thought of the United States and of Illinois, where the farmers grow pigs.. 

 Theyknewthey had got to sell their pork in competition with the hogs 

 from Illinois, and they heard you could produce pork in Illinois very 

 cheap. "And here Ave are close together, four times as many people as 

 in one of their States, and how on earth can we ever sell hogs in competi- 

 tion with Illinois." In this country we would just have laid down. Did' 

 Denmark quit? No. She seint out spies to find out ahout it; what kindiof 

 pork they made, and then came back anid said, "There is no use trying to- 

 to compete with Illinois. But the Englishman goes to Ireland for Irish, 

 pigs and only people that want cheap pork buy American pork." We can 

 feed whey and skim milk and ma ke pork, but will it be good pork. After 

 that he learned what Ireland did and then set their Experiment Station. 

 at work and spent $1,000 to find out; yes, they spent $5,000, $10,OiOO a year 

 to find out what kind of feed would make the best quality of pork. 



In this country you were trying to make filled cheese, thinking you 

 were going to cheat some one. While you were doing that, what was Den- 

 mark doing? Spendng $10,000 trying how to feed to make a better pork 

 than we were making in Illinois, and they succeeded, and when you sit 

 down they will offer you on the bill of fare Danish bacon, not Illinois 

 ham. The highest priced bacon in the market today with Irish is Danish. 



Does education pay? Have you ever wondered about it, except to find 

 fault; ever asked your legislature to give you a few thousand dollars to- 

 help it along? That is what Denmark did. They got down to business. 

 I hope we are going to get down to business, 



I referred to filled cheese. What happened 16 years ago. We were 

 shipping 15 million cheese to England. How much now? About nine 

 million. We have jumped from 15 to 9. People don't eat the same they 

 did? I guess it was because there was no market for it. 



