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mg in New York at from 2 to 5 cents, cheese made in Europe from milk scarcely be 
ter, sells at four times the price, because the maker knew the exact working of h 
curds, and how to handle them to obtain results other than the one unvarying nil 
Individual experiments upon a scale sufficiently large to test the truth of a theory, a 
often an expensive knowledge, and to-day the great crying need of the dairy is a go- 
ernment dairy school, to conduct these experiments and verify discovery, and educai 
men to handle dairy products. When our legislators come to understand that a grej 
national industry like the dairy, that represents an annual transaction of $500,000,00 
is quite as likely to need an appropriation to maintain it (!) as a $19,000,000 harb< 
bill, not quite so many of them would get snowed under by the votes of their consti 
uents. While the quality of our butter has been raised largely by intelligent unde 
standing of principles governing the work, the raising of grain (which is now large) 
fed summer and winter), newly stocked pastures, clovers and standard grasses no 
find a prominent place in pasture and meadow. With their benefiting influences tl 
day of special localities is not counted upon as arbitrarily as it once was, and scienc 
and skill is now demonstrating that, other things being equal, one natural grass-pn 
ducing district is the equal of another. The English Cheshire cheese can be duplicate 
in Wisconsin, and maybe in Illinois, and with equal education there would be n 
eastern or western butter as indicated by texture or flavor. 
Not for one moment would I be understood as saying that the dairy industry we 
only represented by ordinary intelligence. Far from it; for with such workers e 
can be named by the score, who are working and moving forward the car of progres; 
ultimate success must come, but the need is more and better diffused intelligent 
skill, and thorough education in the business, with a national dairy school, with stal 
experiment stations to locally verify the general work, with state and local associs 
tions to scatter and plant the good seed and nurture it, a grand possibility is befoi 
American dairying, such a possibility that there shall be greater need of a secretai 
of the dairy in the president’s cabinet, than a secretary of war or of the navy. Tli 
West is to be congratulated upon its magnificent attainments in the dairy industr 
and here to-night I add my words of commendation, and close by saying that Ohi 
looks upon Illinois and the West not as rivals, but as co-workers whose industry maj 
nifies and exalts a nation. 
Following the above paper Col. Curtiss, of New York, spoke briefly on swet 
cream butter and sweet curd cheese, advocating the manufacture of both if a mark* 
was found for it. 
Dr. Tefft—Will sweet cream butter have as good flavor as slightly acid creai 
butter ? 
Col. Curtiss said he believed not. 
Question—Will it sell for as much in the general market? 
Answer—Those who regulate the products do not know the difference. 
Question—Which yields the most, sweet or sour cream ? 
Answer—Probably the sour cream, because you get more cheese. 
T. B. Wire, of Ohio, said he knew men who were making more money from swee 
cream butter than those who made from sour cream, and so with cheese. 
On motion, adjourned to nine o’clock 
THURSDAY MORNING. 
On assembling for the morning session the President appointed the followin 
Committees: 
On Finance —J. F. Coe, N. P. Wilson, O. S. Colioon, George Chamberlain, W. E 
Hostetter. 
On Nominations— C. H. Larkin, C. C. Buell, II. B. Gurler. 
On Dairy Apparatus —T. II. Baker, John Gilbert, T. B. King. 
C. C. Buell extended an invitation to delegates to visit the Sterling Business Col 
lege. 
On motion, the invitation was accepted. 
D. N. Foster moved that a committee of three be appointed to present resolution: 
relative to pleuro-pneumonia. Carried. 
The Secretary read an invitation from Hon. George B. Loring, Commissioner o 
Agriculture, asking the Association to send delegates to an Agricultural Conventioi 
to be held in Washington during the month of January, 1833. 
