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for seed. I said to them, "You can have all you want." Another 

 neighbor said, "I would like to get some of the seed;" and still 

 another neighbor said, "I want to get some of your seed," and he 

 was looking at the wheat with interest and said, "Where did you 

 get this wheat?" I said, "I got it from you." He said, "I never 

 raised that kind of wheat." I said, "I got the seed from you abomt 

 four or five years ago;" and it was true. I went there and got mj 

 seed. Every grain not true to variety was taken out, and we raised 

 seed enough for the next year's seeding. He said, ''I never had 

 that kind of wheat;" eypry grain was full and plump, simply be- 

 cause care was taken with the seed. Things of that kind will occur. 

 We do quite a good deal of farm dairying at our place. We alway* 

 put the price upon our butter, and have no trouble to sell it at all; 

 in fact, we have never been able to manufacture quite enough to 

 meet the demand. We are very careful in putting it up. Every 

 little package is put by itself, about the same size and same form 

 and every one done up in dairy paper, and we have no trouble in 

 selling it at the price we ask for it. 



MR. CLARK: May I just add one word. I hope that enough has 

 been said here this afternoon to cause us to think, and enable us to 

 become better farmers. There is one point that I would like to 

 speak about and that is this: It is very much a business question 

 this thing of marketing the products of our farms; it requires educa- 

 tion. I want to speak of the boys and girls, I am a great friend of 

 boys and girls. I want them to know far more than I do. The 

 boys and girls ought to have the opportunity of marketing some- 

 thing off the farm. Let them take it to the market, after growing 

 it themselves; let them place it upon the market, and when they 

 come to farm for themselves, they won't have to begin in ignorance, 

 after they are twenty-one years of age, where we had to begin when 

 we were boys. Let them turn their attention to marketing the 

 crops, let them do it themselves; let them be educated to it. Then 

 I think the only thing left for us to do is to settle down and be 

 honest men and women and we will have accomplished it all. 



MR. FENSTEMAKER: No matter what care an honest man will 

 take, I find these creamerymen are dishonest, as a rule. I have seen 

 stacks of empty tubs pretty near as high as the creamery, and stuff 

 that they import from New York or some other state, they throw 

 right into the cream and churn it as one part of the creamery butter, 

 and sell it for that. 



A Member: W^here do they do that? 



MR. FENSTEMAKER: I can mention half a dozen places right in 

 my own county. 



MR. HUTCHISON: I do not want to take any issue with Brother 

 Fenstemaker. It must be a renovated butter factory that he refers 

 to, and not a creamery. 



MR. FENSTEMAKER: I am certain that I can bring witnesses 

 by the hundred to prove it, and I have seen it done many a time my- 

 self. 



