Evening journal., 1920-12-31

product You have your Milk Produc-
ing Association. That has been The
only salvation in New England You
have got to create in the minds OF the
consuming public a better opinion OF
your product than you have I'm the
past DO you know anything about
its value yourselfg DO yon know OF
any reason why people should use
this product? You never told them
I, had any special value. You have
got TO get together on the milking
proposition or whatever YOU are IN
terested In. You have got 10 do some
thing more In milk business II you are
going % sell milk. IN 10 Is going 90
be mixed with the milk from other
farms 10 Is up 90 YOU 20 know that
there is no contamination In the milk
where your milk goes. IL is up TO you
not only 10 create a market by eX-
planning the value OF your product
but 10 see 90 IL that it goes 10 the
market pure. People are getting TO
expect a good deal OF dairymen and
i'm order TO work ont your problems
YOU have got 90 assume a lot OF re-
spOnsibility. In the nret place. disease
gets into our herds, but your Stale
has said and your government has
said, Gentlemen, If you want us TO
we win lake over your herd prob
lens In tuberculosis. They have
done 10 for the dairyman and for the
farm and 10 is one Of the advantages
you are getting. The government does
that because OF the health OF the peO-
/ pie. The first and most important
thing OF AN is education. the next is
| the, health OF the community and MI
/ lions are being spent on them both.
I say 90 you get the machine that pro-
duccs your milk at the lowest cost
realizing that you yourself only get
the wages that you could pay some
other man.
General Benson in his letter in ad-
dition 20 making recommendations,
said:
Mr.. Beason's letter. in part follows
"The farmer is grOaning under the
| burden OF crops grown at the peak or
/ high cost and a continued low selling
market. ] doubt II the city folks
realize the trouble that confr0nts the
grower OF their food supply.
"Will ne strike and refuse 10 grow
/ fOOd2 he Will not. Will he break
under the load? lie may stagger and
may need help, but the faith. strength
and fOrtitude in his soul is OF and
from the soil. Men may fail him,
bugs. insects, fungus, diseases, blight
and middlemen may poster and annoy
I him. but his heart always turns back
TO old mother earth. lie knows she
Is kind and will not fail him.
NO, he will not strike, nor will he
stop producing food, but he will pro-
! test. and that vigorously against a
condition which cOmpels him TO pro-
] Nnnn food fnuu anaf a.. food
/ people who are getting ratio OF ten
10 one for their services, TO say moth
ing OF the idle rich, who toll not, but
drink much gin
There is a battle being waged over
school laws. The present law places
an increased burden on farming that
| should be modified school taxes
have increased in some instances 500
10 500 per cent. Can they stand 10
| We should have the very best school
laws possible. ] would preach and
pray for good schools. would also
suggest, though ] may be accused OF
lheresy, that 10 is possible we are edu-
eating our young folks away from Tho
farms. Any higher education thai
fails 10 instiil in the minds and hearts
I0f future generations the nobility oI
food production, will have failed in 10.
full duty.
while we educate 10 make min
isters, lawyers. doctors, manufactur
lers, merchants, artists. writer's. engi
neers and skilled mechanics. wl
should not neglect 20 educate oul
young in the honorable. the humble
profession Of food production. Tn,
propaganda that keeps alive the time
worn Joke that farming is a subiec
Tot ridicule, should be shelvcd and
neW propaganda launched that glori
lies the profession. We arc nov
blessed with an abundant food supply
Can we rest assured that 10 will con
tinue abundant?"