DAIRY MEETING. 1 53 



THE RELATION OF THE DAIRYMAN TO THE 

 CREAMERY MAN. 



By J. Natt GiIvMan, Pittsfield. 



My subject is rather an important one, to both the creamery 

 man and the dairyman. Some of the creamery men consider the 

 farmers the important end of our business, and surely if there 

 were no dairymen there would be no creameries. On the other 

 hand, we consider the creameries an important factor to the 

 dairymen. If you go back a period of years, perhaps 20, and 

 compare the facilities of doing business along dairy lines at that 

 time with those of the present, it will show a great development. 

 Consider the pan system of raising cream, of 15 or 20 years ago, 

 as compared with the separator system of the present time ; also 

 compare the system of manufacturing butter on the dairy farm 

 and marketing it in small quantities with the manufacture of but- 

 ter at the present time, and you will see the vast improvement 

 and the great development. I have been in the creamery business 

 but a few years, a little less than five years, and oftentimes the 

 farmers have circulated reports that I was a robber and a thief 

 by being in the creamery business. I would dislike to be called 

 those names, and would investigate the report, going straight to 

 headquarters, and would find that there was some dissatisfaction 

 on the part of a dairyman in regard to the handling of his prod- 

 uct. And by going right to the foundation head and asking for 

 facts in relation to those reports, we would very often overcome 

 and correct difficulties that if they were not promptly attended to 

 would create a great deal of dissatisfaction among the farmers 

 in the whole neighborhood ; and that dissatisfaction might really 

 be caused by a mistake in bookkeeping. I think there is one 

 word that will relieve a great deal of the distrust between the 

 dairymen and creamery men, and that is, investigation. I sup- 

 pose most of you farmers are patronizing creameries, selling 

 them your sweet cream or sour cream, as it may be. When you 

 have a fault or a complaint to make, is it not well enough before 

 you talk considerably among your neighbors, to investigate the 

 matter thoroughly and see whether you are at fault, whether 

 the creamery man is at fault, whether your cream collector is at 

 fault, or whether a mistake has been made in the process of doing 



