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found I could pay for my labor employed on the farm and make the 

 institution run on its own resources b}- selling milk. At the same 

 time I was improving the fertility' of mj- farm, which was badly run 

 out from the fact of the hay having been sold from it for many 

 3'ears and nothing returned. 



After a time I became tired of the business of selling milk, there 

 were so many inconveniences about it, and I commenced experi- 

 menting a little in the way of making butter. At first I supposed 

 it was no sort of use to reckon butter making by the side of the sel- 

 ling of milk, located as I was, so near a market. I made some 

 experiments in that direction. I learned the amount of milk it 

 took to make a pound of butter. I found that we could make good 

 butter. I soon learned what I could get for it. The investigations 

 that I made after a time assured me that I would get about the 

 same mone}' return from the butter that I did from the milk, and 

 that I would have the skim-milk and buttermilk for other puiposes. 

 As I said before, mj' help on the farm is hired help entirely. I 

 talked with the woman who was in charge then. She happened to 

 be a sensible woman, a good butter maker, and I found she readily 

 took to the idea of making butter. I supplied her with the modern 

 facilities for handling the milk, got a creamery and fitted up for it, 

 and she was better satisfied to run the butter department than she 

 had been with the care of the milk selling business. As all of vou 

 know, who know anything about the milk trade, there is a certain 

 amount of hard work attending the cleaning of the milk cans. 

 They must be kept clean. Milk is a very sensitive article and must 

 be handled with a great deal of care. vSo I changed the business 

 entirely, from selling milk to making butter. I do not think I get 

 quite as much for my butter, but the difference in the actual profit 

 is very slight, indeed. In the first place I made a trade with a 

 prominent grocer to take my butter for the year, and I made a hard 

 trade. I might have realized five or ten cents more per pound. 

 I get thirty cents b^^ the .year, but can do better next year. 



I never knew a woman who made butter who did not claim that 

 she made good butter. Many of them do, and all would with the 

 proper facilities for making it ; but no woman can always make the 

 same grade of butter unless she has the proper facilities. With a 

 good creamery, plenty of ice, and with all the facilities for making 

 butter the same at all times, there is no reason why your churning 

 to-day shall not be precisely the same as it was yesterday or last 



