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to take up and consider a report submitted to this associa¬ 
tion by a committee appointed by a local dairy association, 
upon a communication written by L. B. Arnold, of Rochester, 
N. Y., and printed in The Prairie Fanner , of August 28, 1875. 
On motion, R. P. McGlincy was requested to read to the 
convention the communication referred to, after the reading 
of which, G. P. Lord, in behalf of the committee, now read 
the report, which was submitted to the convention for its 
consideration. 
Judge Wilcox did not like the report, especially the 
closing; did not like to compliment any one who had spoken 
so disparagingly of Western milk; said Mr. Arnold’s exper¬ 
iments amounted to nothing; he gave no results as to his 
Eastern experiment, not even where it was made; Mr. A. was 
a visionary man; one experiment could establish nothing. 
Could any man of good sense condemn the milk of a whole 
country upon such an experiment ? Mr. A. came to Elgin to 
experiment, made a failure, and must have some escape, so 
he theorizes on “ sloughs,” “ stagnant water,” “ local ene 
mies,” etc. No one experiment could establish a fact; it 
should have taken many experiments and much research to 
establish a fact so important as this; did not believe Mr. A. 
was sufficiently posted as to our country, its water, soil, and 
general adaptability to dairy purposes, to warrant any such 
wholesale condemnation of Western milk; his visits to the 
West had generally been in the winter, when the ground was 
frozen and he could see nothing; believed Mr. A. would 
regret the position he had taken; it was untenable, and he 
could not maintain it by any fair course of reasoning: did 
not wish to be personal; had no unkind word for Mr. A.; it 
was only his theory he wished to combat, and which every 
dairyman in the West should deem it his duty, as well as 
privilege, to resent. 
G. P. Lord said none of the committee defended Mr. 
Arnold or his position, as heAiQ^j©packed Western milk- 
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