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cream, seventy cents a pound for butter. I could crowd up' 

 on both of those prices, because I have been for two years 

 twenty-five pounds or thirty quarts a week behind in my de- 

 mands ; and in the changes which I make in buying and sel- 

 ling my thoroughbred herd, I frequently have to cut down 

 on the engagements I have made ; but I have tried fairly and 

 squarely to average the prices. In putting them up, as I 

 have, from forty to eighty cents, it is a great deal nearer to 

 eighty cents than forty. 



Question, I understood you to say that the best butter 

 could not be got in deep setting. Does not Mr. Bowditch 

 make good butter in deep setting? 



Mr. Goodman. I never ate any of his butter. I have 

 never had the pleasure of accepting his kindly invitation to 

 break bread under his roof. His butter is made from Guern- 

 sey cows. I am not prepared to admit that that is in the 

 category I have mentioned. 



Mr. G. W. GoDDAKD of Greenville, N. H. Mr. Bowditch 

 used the Harding system. 



Mr. Goodman. I thought that had been superseded 

 years ago. I thought that Mr. Cooley's system was far 

 ahead of Harding's. 



Mr. GoDDARD. When I was at Mr. Bowditch's place, he 

 had the Cooley creamer and the Harding system both in 

 operation, and he did not think there was much diflference. 

 I have visited those concerns where the best butter is sold, 

 for instance, Benton, Caverly & Co., in Boston, and they 

 commend Mr. Bowditch's butter, and consider it as good 

 butter as is made in New England 



Mr. Goodman. I am very glad to be closely questioned 

 on this matter, because it gives opportunity for discussion. 

 I want to say that I am very glad, as a young man, to meet 

 a young man in Massachusetts who is interested in dairying. 

 An elderly gentleman said to me, as I was called to the plat- 

 form, " It seems to me that only old men are engaged in the 

 dairy business." I said to this elderly gentleman, that it 

 was a melancholy fact that young men did not, as a rule, ap- 

 pear at these meetings, which meant that they did not take 

 any interest in agriculture. I think it will be generally ad- 

 mitted that the young men go away from the farm, if they 



