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of Spiceland, He has been showing butter at the meeting of the 

 State Dairy Association and also at the Annual State Fair at Indianapolis 

 for some years, and while he has not always won the highest prizes, I 

 think he has probably been more successful than most of the exhibitors, 

 and from all I have been able to learn of the worli of his creamery, he 

 is a very successful worker; and was asked to discuss the question, "Does 

 It Pay the Buttei'-Maker to Exhibit?" Mr. Newby is not with us today, 

 I regret to say, but the Secretary, I believe, has his paper, and will- pre- 

 sent it. 



The Secretary: Mr. Newby impressed me as the biggest man in a 

 small place that I have found in Indiana creameries. 



DOES IT PAY THE BUTTER-MAKER TO EXHIBIT? 



HERBERT NEWBY, SPICELAND. 



In answering this question I shall only attempt a short outline of the 

 subject, hoping that a discussion will follow which will bring out all the 

 points any one may wish. 



In the first place, I would say if the butter-maker enters the contest 

 simply for the dollars and cents in it, and with his mind fully made up 

 that he makes just as good butter as any one, and that there can not by 

 any possible chance be another tub entered that will score higher than his, 

 then it will not pay him, for he may not know it all, and if his butter is 

 at fault, and is scored low, he will not believe it was right. There are 

 possibly twelve tubs of butter entered here, at a cost of $6 to each butter- 

 maker, competing for prizes to the amount of $75. Where is the pay? 

 Unless the butter-maker is ready to profit by friendly criticism and by 

 the scoring so that he may know whether he has too much or too little 

 color, too much salt, or if by putting in a little more he could have been 

 perfect there, and have increased the flavor one or two points; if each 

 fault is noted in the scoring, and a suggestion offered as to the way to 

 overcome the fault, then it pays, and pays big, not only in possibly getting 

 enough money out of the contest to pay all expenses, but by knowing 

 where he is at fault, and the possible remedy. Then he can or should be 

 able to make a better tub the next time, if he is a man who is up-to- 

 date or equal to the emergency. There may come times in which the sur- 

 roundings are such that things over which we have no control may cause 

 us to score low, but if he is an educated butter-maker, he will not only 

 be able to make a tub of butter which will score high, but to repeat it; 

 for any one may make an occasional tub that will score high, but if he 



