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owner desires, one paying- for the cream according to its actual 

 value. So I think the creamery of the future will not handle 

 whole milk only or cream only, but one of the kind I have des- 

 cribed, that takes its raw material in any form, provided it is 

 good, leaving the producer to do about as he desires, to use the 

 old shallow pan, a deep setting device, or a separation or to 

 haul his milk to the factory. There is nothing to prevent the 

 creamery being conducted on this elastic plan. 



Maj. Alvord. Let me ask a question. Is there any factory 

 here where the milk is hauled to the creamery? 



Answer — I have one. 



Question — Maj. Alvord — Who bears the expense of the haul- 

 ing in both cases? 



Answer — The farmer. 



Question — Maj. Alvord — He hauls the cream as well as the 

 milk? 



Answer — Yes sir. 



Question — Maj. Alvord — The factory has nothing to do with 

 it? 



Answer — No sir. 



Question — Maj. Alvord — Have you made any figures on the 

 cost? 



Answer — He makes them, that is, if there are any made. 



Maj. Alvord — I'hope that the patrons will make the factories 

 do it just as they used to do. I am opposed to the shifting of 

 the cost of hauling from the factory to the milk producer. 

 When this is done the factory prides itself upon the great re- 

 duction of running expenses, but nothing is said about the 

 additional expense of the farmer, on account of the hauling. 

 It is next to impossible to reduce this cost to dollars and cents, 

 but I believe when the creamery undertakes to bear this ex- 

 pense, the cost of hauling is correctly ascertained and it work- 

 ed down to the lowest possible limit. I believe this question 

 of hauling all over the country, is the biggest leak in the sys- 

 tem and one that must be settled; and I believe the business 

 management of the creamery is in better shape to undertake 

 this reform in most cases than is the individual farmer. 



President Pierce. I dislike very much to break up this dis- 

 cussion but the time has arrived when we must take up the 

 subject of private dairying. We have with us a woman who 

 has, in all probability won more prizes than any dairy man 

 in Vermont, I will introduce Mrs. Carrie J. Nelson, who will 

 speak to us on "Private Dairying." 



