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fully five and one half times what they were ten years ago. 

 Our pounds of butter made have not increased 50% over what 

 they were ten years ago. During the past summer we have 

 shipped an average of fifteen carloads of milk and cream per 

 week to our distributing stores and customers. We have a large 

 demand for buttermilk and for the past few weeks, our entire 

 make of buttermilk has been required for shipping so that we 

 have had to rob our trade of a little milk for a few pigs which 

 we keep under the stable. Other creameries in the state are 

 tending the same way — first from butter to sweet cream then 

 to milk. 



With the increase in population in the eastern cities of New 

 England, Maine is bound to be called upon for a supply of milk. 

 I hope the creamery-men and producers in Maine will so far 

 co-operate — work together with intelligence and fairness — as to 

 avoid such senseless and wasteful wars as we have seen waged 

 between contractors and producers in Massachusetts. 



War is justifiable when it aims at the destruction of evil and 

 the establishment of good. War is justifiable against noxious 

 insects, slavery, rum or even the little wars of creamery-men 

 against slovenly and careless handling of that most delicate and 

 perishable article of food, milk. The Boston milk wars appear 

 to an onlooker more like wars of plunder, to see which side can 

 carry off the most dollars, regardless of justice and fairness. 



In the meantime the people pay the charges and get no benefit. 

 The trouble is that the farmers do not know the contractors' side 

 of the matter and are suspicious that the contractors are not 

 paying them fair prices. 



President Roosevelt has advocated publicity as a specific for 

 corporation evils. When our honored president was punching 

 cattle in the wild west, the Turner Centre Dairying Association 

 was quietly and as a matter of course, sending out annually to 

 each of its patrons a report of the year's business. I don't sup- 

 pose the president got his idea from studying Turner Centre 

 Creamery methods, but the case might be quoted as illustrating 

 the saying that "Great minds run in the same channel." 



I hope the president will not be puffed up with pride when he 

 gets his next Evening Journal. 



Careful and systematic ofiice work and up-to-date laboratory 

 work are matters to be looked after by the creamery man. If 



