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could not be sustained; good milk should not be tampered 
W On motion, a committee of five was appointed, consisting 
of L. C. Ward, G. P. Lord, C. H. Wilder, C. H Larkin, and 
E. H. Seward, to consider the whole matter of the Arnold 
letter and the committee’s report, and report their conclusion 
to this meeting at 10 a. m. to-morrow. 
Topic No 8— u The Manufacture of Skimmed Cheese is it 
Injurious or Beneficial to the Dairy Interest”-was now taken 
up, and the discussion opened by Chas. Baltz, of Chicago, 
who delivered the following address: 
CHARLES BALTZ’S ADDRESS. 
The manufacture of milk into both butter and cheese is injurious and 
unStXto the dairyman, as it injures him in the long 
abandoned, give place to - 
of cheessnot 11 Wisconsin Ohio, and east to Vermont and Massachu- 
well-known by our X dairymen. The introduction of our factory 
setts, is W(dl y success and favor that Russia has sent 
system n 1 the idea we planted there. With such a 
her agents to® American cheese, it it not evident that we should wish to 
Maintain it ? But the question arises here, Are we making such cheese now 
Xuw ™n?^r maintaining it V I answer, No. Examining the ques 
as win , h e in Illinois, where we will find plenty or 
tS— our experience during the past sea¬ 
son v We find that cheese has shown a weakness somewhere. We are 
? 1 1 * Wirmino- to lose our fair reputation. Skim cheese is beginning to 
n !od' our market Factorymen have had the skimmer in hand, and have 
do l L ‘ ,-peese and butter; and this lias not been done m several 
been making sUm oh^id. ^ ^ ^ what reason do they 
lactones, li t n d ^. lve each other to it. I have often asked the 
give for this . ‘ J Thp answer is We are obliged to do so; the 
factorymen w^rthey ne}gh ’ borhood skim , a nd we are obliged to do the same 
t<lC ^ 01 " . ofvmis But does it pay V We have now invested in this coun- 
or lose our p. ^ working facilities alone, and this would be all a dead 
f y tTiirSmdi"' should'’the factory system go down. We now place 
° hh U +i p urn-bet ‘innnally a product worth one hundred and sixty millions 
rSSTmSS .bringing .n.h . -unit, .. .hould U 
I"—'.! tbnt our lovnign lomn.i.l mt nMta I"*""— 
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