VERMONT DAIRYMKN'S ASSOCIATION. 45 



Question — How long - does it take to churn? 



Answer — It took fifty-five minutes the other day when we 

 timed ourselves. 



Question — Do you test your butter milk after your churn? 



Answer — Not very often. 



Mr. Sherburne. How cool do you keep the cream? 

 Answer — At forty-five perhaps. 



Question — Why do you do that? 



Answer — That the bacteria may not commence to work in 

 it until I am ready for it. 



Question — Can you make better butter in winter than in 

 summer? 



Answer — I think I make fully as good quality in winter as 

 in summer. There are are some things against it in winter, 

 but I have no refrigerator to keep my butter in in summer. 



Question — Can't you keep it as cool as forty-five degrees? 



Answer — I have no way of keeping it as cool as that. 



Question — Did you ever think of keeping it warm in winter? 



Answer — Yes I have tried it in that way. At one time I 

 brought my butter to the Association meeting and the expert 

 told me that my butter was a little too sour. It tasted to him 

 as though it was too ripe, I told him my butter was ready to 

 churn one day before it was churned. I have always thought 

 since then it hurt it to be too ripe. 



Gov. Hoard. I would like to add a word. I observe from 

 the character of the remarks of this lady that she has the 

 quality of teachableness. She has had her ear very close to 

 the market. She has her ear constantly attuned to the ver- 

 dict of facts and has no pre-conceived notions that she has 

 carried into her "business. I was very much struck with the 

 concluding remark of her address, 313 pounds of butter to the 

 cow, heifers and all! And was exceedingly surprised that 

 there was not some man in this Vermont audience who would 

 stand up and show himself, equal, at least to one woman in 

 Vermont enterprise. 



Mr. Northrup. Governor, if the lady had said "private 

 dairying" I would have stood up. 



Mr. Tinkham. Perhaps the Governor didn't understand 

 that she asked the patrons of creameries who had made over 

 313 pounds to a cow to stand up. If you ask for private dairy- 

 ing you will find them all over the audience. 



Gov. Hoard. I am surprised there are no patrons of cream- 

 eries here who have not received for over 313 pounds to a cow. 



Mrs. J. W. Thurber. How can they get it if they can't 

 get it? 



Gov. Hoard. I am surprised that any lady should ask "how 

 can they get it?" in our country where ladies get whatever 



