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them, we will thou have a 400 pounds per day creamery, showing 

 over I"), 000. 00 j)er year more profit llian the oldi gravity creamery 

 could be made to show. 



I hope you fully understand just what I intvnd to show by this 

 comparison, for none of these figures nor assertions are based on any 

 theory, nor supposition, nor mere idea, but they are actual, practical 

 facts, being daily demonstrated by yourselves, and hundreds of others 

 all over the country. Those figures show you, and show you unques- 

 tionably, how to make |5,000.00 per year profit out of a creamery, 

 which on the factory separator system makes |2,500.00 per year 

 profit. 



Its a plain, easy, proposition, which cannot be gainsaid, and it 

 puzzles me, win' the Pennsylvania creameryman doo't grasp it quick- 

 ly even if he should have to throw that brand new factory separator 

 into the scrap pile. Mark my word, you or your patrons will have 

 to pay for that separator over again, every two or three months, as 

 long as you keep it in use. Take my advice and put it on your 

 mantel-piece, for the good it has done, and don't compel it to disgrace 

 itself by losing for you all it has made, before better methods were 

 known. 



The advantages peculiar to the factory-seperator creamery are a 

 gain of from fifteen to twenty per cent, in butter yield from 

 the same milk, than the gravity system would give. In addition to 

 that, a better quality and more even quality of butter. Large sav- 

 ing in ice and in room. An independence of weather conditions. 

 The advantages peculiar to the gravity-cream-gathering system, con- 

 sist in the saving of a lot of the farmer's time or his helpers' time. 

 Also horses, harness, wagons, blacksmith bills, etc., which, for some 

 unaccountable reason, entirely too many farmers count as nothing. 

 Also in keeping at home, the skim milk from the farmer's own herd 

 in place of bringing the mixed milk from numerous dairies, some of 

 them more than liable to be diseased, and thus the disease spread 

 through his herd and the country. Also the fact that far larger 

 territory can be advantageously covered by cream gathering wagons, 

 than is the case where the whole bulk of milk is hauled to the factory 

 and back again. 



Now, as stated, the Moody system has all the advantages of both 

 of these system and is necessarily profitable accordingly, but beside 

 these it has still other advantages peculiar to it alone. 



One of the greatest of these is the warm, fresh, wholesome skim 

 milk left on the farm readv for immediate use in stock feeding 

 and for other purposes. Its value in this shape is three or four 

 times what it is after it has become stale and sour. It is a most 

 wholesome, strengthening, nourishing food for all kinds of stock, 

 horses, cows, calves, pigs. It bears almost no relation to the sour 



