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Professor Decker: I think so, if tlie mercliants would all pull together 

 on that. 



Mrs. Shaw: I will say, Professor Decker, that I do not have to s;ll 

 my butter to the grocer, and I pity the woman who does. A woman may 

 make a good pound of butter, and sell it to the gr( cer. and he will put 

 it in the back part of his store without any cover on it, and in the store 

 you will sometimes find a lot of men, some of them smoliing, and this 

 will spoil the best pound of butter made. I think if the giocer will pre- 

 pare a place in his store where he can take care of butter, the women 

 are sharp enough to appreciate it. I know it is true that some of th^-m 

 make bad butter. 



Mr. Burnside: I know we have had such an experience with our 

 grocery people. We feel that we make good butter, and they put it in 

 a refrigerator, and they will have bacon and cabbage and everything 

 else in that refrigerator with the butter, which will take up the odor; 

 and then they blame the creameries, and they do the same thing with the 

 farmer's butter. 



The President: Why don't you make a contract with the grocer that 

 he shall buy it under certain conditions? 



Mr. Burnside: AVe did make a contract if they did it any more they 

 could not have any. 



Professor Decker: That is a pretty good way to take them. 



Mr. Burnside: There is a question I would like to ask you. I would 

 like you to tell me wliy tliere is so much difference in the market of Cin- 

 cinnati between Ohio creamery butter and Elgin butter? Today Elgin 

 butter is 2(% and Ohio creamery is 22%. 



Professor Decker: It is simply because they have not been educated 

 up to knoAV that we can make as good butter in Ohio as they can any 

 where else. We made our exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition, and 

 we showed them that we stood up with the rest of the world. We are 

 going to take care of that all right. 



Mr. Burnside: I think the people in Ohio can make as good butter as 

 any one else. 



The President: Wlay does yellow butter bring more than white butter 

 in Ohio? 



Professor Decker: I will tell you. Yellow is gold, and we are gold 

 people over tliere. [Laughter.] 



The Secretary: I suppose the same thing applies to oleo, does it? 



