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about 10,000 cows or about one thousand cows to each cream- 

 ery. Each one of those farmers then, is affected directly by 

 the creamery, for his good forlmne or his ill. We have gone 

 all through this matter of distrust, we have had that all 

 fought over years ago and it is unavoidable to the existence 

 of every creamery. Men have to learn their ways, and as the 

 boy said who was set to breaking flax in the barn and who 

 didn't make any headwa}*, that he didn't believe he had "got 

 the hang of the barn yet." It is always necessary to get the 

 hang of the institution, and by and by men get to working in 

 harmony with it and it goes along all right. 



I think that every proprietor of a creamery ought to feel a 

 conscientious impulse towards doing everything he can for the 

 education of his patrons and to make that creamery conducive 

 to their education. Every creamery is like a school house, it 

 is an educational center. Now if the school does its duty and 

 the patrons of the school do their duty, and the schoolmaster 

 does his duty, at once you see everything becomes harmoni- 

 ous and the school is conducive to the advancement of civili- 

 zation and knowledge in the community. If the school teach- 

 er is out of harmony with the school and scholars, this 

 school does not become a useful center, but becomes a maker 

 of discord worse than nothing. The creamery is like the 

 school house the world over, in that it becomes an education- 

 al center and men come together and whether they want to 

 educate themselves or not they must and will. Education is 

 unavoidable, either right education or wrong, there is no 

 such thing as men touching elbows with each other but what 

 there grows out of it some sort of education. 



The difficulty with all of us is ignorance. I don't mean to 

 charge you with ignorance any more than myself. When I 

 look back over my life and see where I have failed, I find in 

 almost every instance it is because I did not know enough. 

 Christ says, "The truth shall make you free," and I tell you 

 that if vou study the utterances of Jesus Christ along the line 

 of philosophy you will find that there are many statements 

 that reach far into the philosophy of human growth. "The 

 truth shall make you free." Now what shall make 3-ou 

 slaves? Error, wrong judgement, wrong suppositions of 

 things makes a man a slave to himself, to his own error, to 

 his own foolishness, to his own ignorance and to every line of 

 misconception that crosses his pathway; and he is a slave to 

 every other man. Now then, what shall we do to make our- 

 selves free, how shall we get at the truth in our own mind, in 

 our relationship to our duty and our business, and get at the 

 truth of the thing itself? 



