No. e DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURB. 1M 



awake on this subject. The last issue of the Elgin Dairy Report con- 

 tains the following: 



"It is useless to deny the fact that the hand separator is — slowly 

 but surely — invading Nebraska, and it cannot be too much regretted 

 that not all the creamerymeu foresaw this as did my old friend 

 Sutton, of Table Rock. Just think of what a saving it would have 

 been if the farmers had been induced to take up the hand separator 

 at the old gath(^red-cream creameries. I do not have the actual 

 figures, but I understand that one combination has .f27.5,000 worth 

 of old creameries and skim stations and should guess that not less 

 than one million dollars invested in separator creameries and skim 

 stations in Nebraska will be lost completely when the hand separator 

 has finished its triumphal march." 



Also on the Pacific Coast, especially in Washington and Oregon, 

 tht system is becoming almost universal. The Albany l^utter and 

 Produce Company's creameries of Salem, Ore., operating exclusively 

 on the Moody system, with but one make or kind of separator in use, 

 operated systematically throughout, has just received the highest 

 score given to any butter in America this season, 99^ for its product, 

 at the Oregon State Exposition. The significance of the score is 

 enhanced, when it is known that the highest score received at this 

 Exposition by butter from a creamery operated on any other system 

 than the Moody, was the Hazelwood Creamery. Its butter scoring 

 90^, showing that there w^as no tendency on the part of the judges to 

 score butter, higher than its merit w^arranted. 



California's two most prominent creameries are into it; one of 

 them has alreadv introduced the Moodv system and the other is now 

 negotiating to do so at once. One of these made the highest score 

 on butter in the State for three vears in succession, and the other 

 has paid the highest price for milk, to its patrons, for a long time 

 past, of any other creamery in its part of the country. 



I quote this only to show that very good is not good enough for 

 them, but if there is anything better to be had they want it. It is 

 this spirit that has kept them in the lead in the past and will do so 

 in the future. Remember now that the western part of America 

 bears the same geographical position to us, that we do to Europe. 



Europe has fallen behind and will continue to fall further behind 

 in her manufacturing, and America will continue to advance, because 

 the one is conservative past the profitable point and is not quick 

 to grasp an opportunity, while the other is instantly ready to take 

 up an improvement. Let it not be that our western States also grasp, 

 and put in profitable use, a system so long before our own dairymen 

 do so. that we will fall behind in the race. 



