Henry Baird Favill, AB, MD, LL.D., 1860-1916, a ... - University Library

502 HENRY BAIRD FAVILL
foot-and-mouth disease, with its ensuing campaign of
eradication, including quarantine of the cattle at the Dairy
Show and all the problems legitimately arising therefrom,
precipitated upon the consciousness of all people related
to the industry, a conviction that dairj^^ng as a factor
in national prosperity is dangerously unprepared to cope
with the natural vicissitudes and perils which can arise
to threaten an industry so fundamental, so colossal, and so
unorganized.
Accordingly in the spring of 191 5, the National Dairy
Council was reorganized, separated in form from the National
Dairy Show and established upon a basis of activity
which contemplates incorporation into one body, so far as
circumstances may demand, of all interests which are
solely or largely dependent upon the dairy cow.
It is the aim of the Council to bring into its organization
to the largest possible extent the men who produce the
milk, who manufacture milk products, who provide materials,
machinery, and transportation, who provide a
market and facilities for distribution, and finally the officials,
administrative or educational, whose counsel and official
functions bear so vital a relationship to the ultimate estimate
and value of dairy products furnished for public
benefit.
To this end an eifort is made to enlist farmers and
educators, distributors, machinery men, manufacturers of
butter, cheese, machinery, feed, cement, milk dealers, and
health officials. It is hoped that coordination may be
effected with the state agricultural stations, the National
Department of Agriculture, and so on through all the list
of cognate branches of public service, with full realization
that in the last analysis there is no conflict of interests; on
the contrary, such community of interest as must be recognized
and conserved in order fully to advance an enterprise
upon which more than upon any other foundation rests
national prosperity.