520 BOAED OF AGEICULTUKE. 



Promoters who spend a month or two in a community working up a 

 creamery have to be paid for their time. 



These, then, are my suggestions as to how the farmer can get a better 

 price for his butter. 



The President: We have time for a discussion of the subject. 



Professor Decker: I have written this with a view of bringing out 

 discussion. 



The Secretary: I would like to ask Professor Decker what he con- 

 siders the conditions, climate, etc., best adapted for daii-ying? 



Professor Decker: I don't see any reason why we can't dairy as well 

 in Indiana and Ohio as they do in Illinois and Wisconsin, Michigan and 

 Minnesota. Of course, high temperatures in summer are against us, but 

 they have hot weather in those States at that time. We need good water. 

 Of course, we need to keep things clean; that is at the bottom of the dairy 

 business. I don't see why we can't keep things clean in Ohio and Indiana, 

 as well as they do in the States further north. 



The President: We are a little cleaner here than they are up there. 



Professor Decker: I hope you are, and, with the modern refrigerating 

 machinery in the creameries, we can compete with the people farther 

 north. 



The President: Don't you think it would be a good idea for the Dairy 

 Association to begin a campaign on gi'ocers in respect to the price of 

 butter? 



Professor Decker: I think so. 



Mr. Drischel: What plan would you suggest to educate the farmers' 

 wives on the test basis? 



Professor Decker: On the test basis? The nature of the average 

 farmer seems to be so constituted that he thinks his wife can make just 

 as good butter as his neighl^or's can, and if the grocer tells him the truth 

 he will go some place else to trade where they won't tell him the truth, 

 and where he will get a good price for his butter, although it is not as 

 good butter as the grocer gets for that money; but he will do his trading 

 there, and it can be made liaclv in tliis way. 



Mr. Drischel: On the same plan, along in 1892, we l:ought our milk 

 by the hundred, when we put in the Babcock test, and now they are 

 educated up to that point where they believe in the Babcock test, and I 

 think the merchant should have the same kind of a test basis. 



