C24 BOARD OF AGKICULTUEE. 



THE VALUE OF EDUCATION, READING. AND SCORING 



CONTESTS. 



EARL MARTIN, NEW CARLISLE. 



Winner of Two Silver Caps. 



Within the past few years, many changes have taken place in the art 

 of buttermaking. Some years ago when I took my first steps in the great 

 industry, I knew but little of what was before me. At that time almost* 

 any one who was neat and clean and had some knowledge of how to 

 operate ordinary creamery machinery fairly well, how to ripen his cream, 

 when and how to churn and work butter, was considered a first class 

 man, and could command $40 to $50 per month. The same man today 

 is still laboring along in the same old way, and making a very poor 

 grade of butter, and still gets the same old pay, but some of these men 

 have woke up and can see that they must get out of the old rut or go 

 under. They have seen by what others are doing that they must get 

 into the collar and go to some dairy school where the art of butter- 

 making is taught in every detail by the best men that our great country 

 can produce. We find in most cases the man who has taken the course 

 and one Avho studies and works are the boys who are getting the silver 

 cups and medals and from .$75 to $150 per month. We can not expect 

 to get to the top in one year, but by study, work and stick to it. it will 

 come. 



The buttermaker of today must have the get-there spirit in him, if 

 he expects to make it a success, as success in any business never comes 

 by chance or luck. Chauncey Depew being asked by a young man to 

 give the secret of success, replied: "My boy, there is no secret to it; 

 it is just dig, dig, dig." So it is with the buttermaker, if he expects to 

 succeed he must dig, dig, dig. 



I will give a little of my experience- in the past few years of how 

 I have worked up from $.35 per month. The first fouv years I knew 

 nothing of starters, acid tests or bacteria, and what inttuence they had 

 on the product. By this time I h;ul road some of the dairy papers, and 

 had seen what some of the boys wore doing by using starters and acid 

 tests, and knowing how to use Ihom. About this time Mr. H. E. Van 

 Norman, professor of the dairy school, called on me and explained to 

 me how I could benefit myself by tnldiig a course at the dairy school, 

 which I concluded to do that winter. The expense Avas small and the 

 returns gi-eat. It has increased my salary to $0."> per month, and the 

 (veamery company is getting from i^> to 1 cent more per pound for their 

 butter. Buttermaking without the use of starter is like making bread 



