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that the creamerymen are more interested in than this asso- 

 ciation. 



Mr. Fuller: I don't know as I want to take one side or 

 the other but I will give you a little description of my bam, 

 that I used to have. We had a tieup 50 feet long and 1 1 feet 

 wide. It was not much better than the one which Mr. Harris 

 spoke of. A few boards were thrown over some timbers over- 

 head. It was not satisfactory and we had no money to improve 

 it with. We had two windows for each end and there was a 

 chamber out on the backside where the manure was thrown 

 out through the window. We had electric lights so that we 

 could work fairly comfortably although it was very dark and 

 we kept our cowa clean. At that time I was making butter 

 and bringing it to the State Dairy Conference and I got a higher 

 score than I ever got in my new barn with plenty of light. 



Mr. : I used to produce milk in those dark halls, 



and now I produce it in a place reasonably light and which can 

 be kept decently clean ; but I want you to understand that no 

 improvements would ever have been made on my farm towards 

 making better milk and a better place to keep my cows out of 

 the income of those cows through the selling of dairy products. 

 It looks to me that the laborer ought to be worthy of his hire. 

 It looks as though when a farmer puts in his time and money, 

 and does his end of it, he should have remuneration for it so 

 there would be a little profit above the expense of keeping his 

 cows. There is a big leak somewhere. W^hen the business 

 will not warrant building a barn and maintaining a place to 

 keep stock that will be sanitary, somebody ought to pay a little 

 more for the product. 



Mr. Adams : I was very glad to hear from the gentleman. 

 The Boston Chamber of Commerce are holding meetings in 

 Maine with the end in view of finding out the cost of pro- 

 duction from the farmer's standpoint, and they are going to 

 investigate the whole milk situation. In going around over the 

 state the evidence they have obtained from the actual producers 

 would indicate that the producers of milk are not making any 

 money. If they did not do some other branch of farming in 

 connection with the milk production, their income would not 

 be sufficient to maintain them. It seems to me that the dairy- 

 men are not getting enough for their product. 



