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them in evei^ part. He should be a kigh class man, capable of see- 

 ing and knowing wliether or no, each i)ati'on whom he visited, was 

 caring for his cows properly, caring for his cream properly and in all 

 ways running his dairy properly. He should personally see that the 

 separators were always kept in order and doing the best possible 

 work and should be provided with the necessary parts and tools for 

 repairing and renewing any worn or injured part on a separator. 

 This man should go over all of the dillerent routes as frequently as 

 possible, and his services in keeping every patron right up to the 

 highest standard will be extremely valuable and will thus, easily, 

 secure a service not now secured by any whole milk factory that 1 

 know of. 



As is w'ell known, great skill and knowledge is needed at every 

 stage in order to turn out the very finest grades of butter, and the 

 creamery managers will be able to select but one man out of a thous- 

 and who is a suthciently educated butter-maker, to give entire satis- 

 faction in performing the later operations of making butter. But 

 this same management will intrust the first operations, those of pro- 

 ducing and caring for the milk, to any and every milk producer in 

 the neighborhood, and that with practically no supervision what- 

 ever. That is what they are doing now. Out of one hundred 

 patrons under such a system there must be one hundred men, highly 

 expert in this first operation of butter making, or else the butter can- 

 not be of the highest qualit}', for there is no one to watch or oversee 

 them. One poor batch of milk, not necessarily bad milk, nor milk 

 that would be refused at a creamery, but milk that has come from 

 cows fed or housed improperly, or milk that has been just a little less 

 carefully handled, will leaven the whole lump, and no matter how 

 skillful the butter-maker, his butter will be just a little bit inferior 

 to what it might have been. 



But the expert who travels on the wagon of the Moody creamery, 

 is in a position to nose into the milk producing affairs, of every 

 patron, and that very frequently, and musty feed, poorly ventilated 

 stables, sick cows or careless milk handlers, will be liable to come 

 very quickly to his notice, and the expert advice and assistance he 

 can give, on the spot, to the farmer in any emergency will be almost 

 priceless in value. 



The Moody system combines the advantages of both the separator 

 creamery and the gravity-cream-gathering creamery. It is gener- 

 ally recognized about here, that the separator creamery, is so much 

 superior to the w^hole-milk creamery without a separator, that the 

 latter cannot exist, but it is perhaps not so well known that the 

 gravity-cream-gathering factory, has proven itself, also the great 

 superior of the old, gravity-whole-milk factory and almost, if not 

 quite, the equal of the separator factory. 

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