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

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544 HENRY BAIRD FAVILL
impossible to carry out and, if carried out ofif-hand by legislative
enactments, as Mr. Hammond suggested to-day,
would put the dairy industry out of business. I don't say
that Mr. Hammond means that but after all if they go on
enacting on the whole subject the way it is thought it might
be done it would absolutely terminate the whole dairy
business. The thing to do is to go at it from within, and
place our industry above the assaults
of those who know
nothing of its fundamentals.
Now, with all of this lot of things I have said, what is
the remedy? The remedy is — organization in the milk
business more than any other business in the world. It
does n't mean moving against a common enemy. If there
is any one thing organization tends toward, it is selfimprovement;
that is what I look to it for.
In the second place, we have got to do something with
our markets, in order to get the people of this
country^ to
realize that they should be using from four to ten times as
much milk products as they do, in order to fully satisfy
their physiological
needs and economic needs, — from four
to ten times as much should be used as is used to-day in
order to fully justify the situation.
And to accomplish this, I want to say to you this whole
question becomes a matter of education; it is a matter of
presenting right information on the part of every man that
does know about our Indus tr>\
You know what the agricultural colleges have done,
and yet there comes a point beyond which they can not go
there is an abyss that they don't cross. But now we have
the county agent; he attempts to cross the abyss; he
attempts to teach of agricultural products; and he goes
right out and shows the farmer what to do, and he is the
man who is turning the trick. You have no idea of the
difference that this is making, and the responsiveness of
the average farmer who wants to know what to do. I was
talking to a gentleman this morning, and he asked, "How