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interest to go around and see the creamerymen and do business 

 on a fair, square deal, they would reap lots of benefit. I am 

 going to say as a producer that the things that have been advo- 

 cated here today are very easy for us farmers to fall in line 

 with. I began a number of years ago to try to improve in a 

 small way the surroundings for my cattle. As the gentleman 

 who spoke last said, we cannot afford to do it all at once. No 

 farmer in this vicinity can afford to throw away everything he 

 has got and build all new, but there is no one in this hall or in 

 this town who cannot begin in a small way and improve his 

 surroundings, so that in a few years he will have everything 

 satisfactory with the creamerymen. 



I went two or three years ago to a farmers' institute at 

 Canaan, and heard Mr. Gilman tell about his cattle. Some one 

 asked him how he kept his cows clean. He said, "It is a very 

 easy thing. I have them carded every day, and with the proper 

 drop behind them it is no trouble to keep the cows clean." I 

 said to myself, if he can keep his cows clean as easy as that, I 

 can. I bought a card and it was not two weeks before I had 

 them so I felt proud of them. Now my neighbors come into 

 my barn and look my stock over and have nothing but praise 

 for them. Doesn't that appeal to any of you farmers? I am 

 poor but I am proud, — perhaps my pride is what has kept me 

 poor. I tell you. Brother Farmers, if you want to get good 

 prices for your cream you must be progressive and keep your 

 stock so that people will not be afraid to eat the product you 

 produce. The brother said he did not know how we could ever 

 reach the farmer who did not fall into line. Perhaps I can tell 

 him. I have often thought that it is a shame for those who are 

 trying to have a good product to mix it in with the product of 

 a man who is filthy in his work. Our milk is then no better 

 than his and we have to take a low price for cream that is not 

 fit for anybody to eat. The man who is trying to do well has 

 but very little show in this world. It is the man who is not 

 doing anything that is profiting by the few who are trying to 

 do something. I would say to the creamerymen, when you 

 find a lot of cream not fit to take, send it back. I would not 

 care if I lost a man's custom who did not produce clean milk. 

 I tell you, Brother Farmers, you must keep up with the crowd 

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