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not sell my milk and feed the calves, too; so what am I going to do, for 

 of course I would want to save my heifers. How can you raise calves 

 and sell milk? Now comes in the question of rations to take the place of 

 the milk. We must figure this out. Of course we are near a small town, 

 but the demand for milk is reasonably steady. We market our goods at a 

 good price without a very great deal of expenditure of labor. We do it 

 much easier than we could farm, for farming is sometimes done by main 

 strength and awkwardness, and we can not fill the strength part of it. 

 but as I have said, we can milk. You will be surprised to learn that in a 

 town the size of ours it is hard to get good butter even at a good price. 

 Most of the better class of people buy their butter in Indianapolis, but 

 even considering the good price that is paid for butter we can make more 

 off of selling our milk. We used to make butter too, but our business 

 has grown so rapidly that we can not take care of it, so we have had to 

 drop the butter end of it. 



This is a good business and I think more people ought to engage in it. 



Mr. Wilson: Has your demand for cream grown more rapidly than 

 your demand for milk? 



Mr. Hemenway: No, sir; about the same. Here is one feature of the 

 cream trade. There are people who buy their milk of the town cow and 

 telephone over to our place for cream. This is another fine thing— to 

 have a telephone in your house. We have gotten many orders on account 

 of people being able to call us and tell us to leave them milk or cream. 



Mr. : Will you furnish cream to the town cow customers? 



Mr. Hemenway: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Miller: I should think you would not let them have cream unless 

 they took milk of you, and if they wanted your cream bad enough th(>y 

 would come to you for both. 



Mr. Hemenway: I try to keep cream on hands all the time. I keep 

 sweet cream riglif- fresh from the separator, and keep some about 24 

 hours old for whipping purposes, because the sweet cream will not whip. 

 and T find a great demand for it. The reason 1 supply folks with cream 

 who are not customers of mine is that the town cows are not good cream 

 cows. Our milk even is fine from our .Jersey cows. I have been told 

 often by iry patrons that when tliey have company and they see the 

 milk bottles they will say. "Why you are going to have cream for dinner, 

 lots of cream." when in fact it is only the milk bottle. That is the kind 

 of milk we sell. That is the way we i)ut tlie town cow out of business. 

 by furnishing better milk than they can furnish. I could make almost 



