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plans for helping out their product, things they can do in a 

 practical, inexpensive manner, that will produce better results. 

 I think the individual can for collecting cream will tend to pro- 

 duce better results, and that it will be more economical for the 

 farmer in the long run. He has to pay for the cans anyway, 

 and it is just as well, and better, that each man should pay for 

 his own cans. Then, again, there is an individuality to that 

 cream as it comes to the creamery. When it is pooled with 

 other cream that individuality is lost. Every man has to stand 

 behind his own cream and it has to be judged upon its own 

 merits. I believe in progress. I believe we should all take hold 

 of these good things and push them along. They mean a better 

 product and they mean better prices. I do not always like to 

 talk on the dollar side of the question. Sometimes my very soul 

 revolts against talking so much upon the dollar that comes in 

 return. It seems to me that we should have a further incentive, 

 that every man should strive to improve all the time because it 

 is improvement, and because he should stand for something 

 better in life. I think this matter is something that our people 

 should co-operate in. There has been a better feeling brought 

 about all over this State between the producer and the man who 

 handles his product. They are coming to know each other 

 better, and we cannot know the people with whom we are doing 

 business any too well. It means more peace and satisfaction, 

 because when we work together it always brings better results. 



W. K. Hamlin (So. Waterford). I feel very much inter- 

 ested in this work. I am particularly interested in anything 

 along the lines of improvement, and the thing that appeals to 

 me most just now is this matter of testing herds of cows to find 

 out exactly, or pretty nearly so, what each individual cow is 

 doing. From what I have been able to learn about this, it seems 

 to me that it is the next great work, for the dairyman at least, 

 and I am particularly anxious that this work may start over in 

 our locality. I would like to have the name of having a hand 

 in starting the movement in this State. I was very much inter- 

 ested in Mr. Bradford's paper. At our place we do not sell 

 any cream, we manufacture our cream into butter, and we do 

 not go into any expensive ways of killing the germs in the 

 cream. We really do not have very much trouble. We are in 



