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people that would rather have daily butter than creamery butter. I must 

 say that the butter which we have had at this convention today is very 

 good. The dairy butter especially is something to be proud of. In many 

 cases it is more profitable to make poor butter in the State of Indiana than 

 it is to make good. Doesn't that seem queer? Nevertheless it is a fact. 

 We have got to send out eight or ten ouiles in order to collect the milk^ 

 milk enough to run a creamery. We get lots of milk when the cows are 

 all fresh, but when they begin to dry up halt the cans will hold the 

 milk, and so we commence sending after it once every other day. You 

 see it costs so much for each trip and if we can cut down the number of 

 trips to half, then we have cut that expense in two. In this way you may 

 be able to make some money out of it. I know two co-operative cream- 

 eries that never expect to make any money during the rushed season, 

 but when the cows begin to give less milk they make their money. 1 

 know lots of creameries that do not think of paying over $10 a week for 

 a buttermaker— they are perfectly contented with a $10 man to operate 

 their creamery. How can a man on a salaiy like that afford to go to 

 school and educate himself. It seems to me he could go out in the field 

 and follow the plow and make more money than he could following the 

 creamery business at that price. 



President Johnson: Allow me to interrupt a moment. In looking over 

 some of the committees I have found that some of the people have gone 

 home and I do not believe there is much, if any, work done at this time, 

 so I shall appoint a new committee, and I wish that they would go to 

 work immediately so that we may have their report before the close of 

 the meeting. I will appoint Messrs. Knox, Calvin, Drischel and Woods 

 on the Resolutions Committee. 



Mr. Slater: We have as much brains in Indiana as they have in Iowa 

 and AVisconsin, and all we need is to educate ourselves. We have the 

 same things to contend with here in Indiana now that we had in southern 

 Minnesota 10 or 12 years ago. The farmers could not understand how their 

 tests varied from day to day, and from month to month. They could not 

 understand how it would be five points higher or five points lower. When 

 it was higher you never heard of it, but when it was lower, look out. Some 

 of the folks using the hand separators will put in their milk before get- 

 ting up speed, and will try to separate night and morning's milk together, 

 and then expect the machine to do good work in that way. They will 

 have it full one time and the next time have it half full. In rinsing the 

 separator some use skimmed milk and others water. Another thing, when 

 a sample test is taken the cream should be thoroughly stirred. This is 

 the part for the creamery man to attend to. It is hard to mix up and get 

 an accurate test of it when it is three or four days old. I have found 

 that the individual creameries in the different States are kept in a much 



