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dairying. Fortunately the need for improved methods is recog- 

 nized by many producers. The increased cost of feed and labor 

 makes it necessary for the dairyman, if he wishes to be financially 

 successful, to keep only such cows as are capable of producing 

 at a profit and to discard all others. No man can make money 

 by keeping an ordinary cow which eats her head off every year. 

 He must therefore select his animals carefully and with suitable 

 foundation stock build upon it by intelligent breeding. The time 

 for scrubs and indiscriminate breeding is past, if dairying is to 

 succeed and maintain its present position among the most impor- 

 tant and profitable branches of agriculture. He must also get 

 away from the old idea that a cow is a cow which is to be fed 

 and handled like every other cow, and learn to deal with them 

 individually instead of collectively. Furthermore the successful 

 dairyman must have a good idea of modern requirements in 

 order to put the profitable methods into successful operation. 

 Our educational institutions are furnishing instruction of this 

 sort, but there is, I believe, an opportunity for educational work 

 along this line by creameries, if they are in a position to do it. 

 With all the work that has been done and with all the advance- 

 ment made there are too many inferior cows kept and too much 

 raw material delivered at our creameries. It is apparent to me 

 that although we are making advancement, we are not securing 

 improvement fast enough to keep pace with the demand, and 

 that our present facilities for giving instruction along this line 

 are insufficient to reach all the people needing assistance. To 

 be sure the extension departments of our colleges have done 

 excellent work through personal correspondence, lectures pub- 

 lished, circulars and demonstrations, and the farmers' institutes 

 are doing good work in giving practical instruction, yet there are 

 many patrons of our creameries who have not had an oppor- 

 tunity, or at least have not embraced it, of being shown how they 

 can produce better and more valuable products at a reasonable 

 cost and make more money out of present-day dairying. I 

 believe much can be done by our creameries to assist in this 

 work if thev will undertake the task. 



THE creamery's RELATION TO THE PATRON. 



The creamery represents a certain number of patrons whose 

 interests are identical and whose success depends in a large 



