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power to overcome the prejudice which the butter men at our 

 great markets have for gathered cream butter. 



The President: — The discussion will be opened by Mr. 

 C. F. Eddy of Stowe. 



C. F. Eddy : — Mr. President, gentlemen and members of the 

 Vermont State Dairymen's Association. I have no set speech 

 in regard to this matter. One thought I have in regard to it was 

 brought to my mind by the last speaker. Now there are good 

 things in regard to the cream gathering system, but, sir, and 

 gentlemen, I believe that they are more than overcome by the 

 bad things. I do not believe, as the gentleman has said, that it is 

 possible to make as good a quality of butter from cream which 

 is gathered in the ordinary manner, in the State of Vermont, as 

 it is to have the whole milk come to the factory. Where the 

 cream is needed is in the butter making station from the time 

 it is separated until it is gathered into the product ; where all the 

 sanitary arrangements should be of the best. I know it has been 

 my experience with cream gathered in the creamery that I was 

 not able to pay the patrons of this creamery, on account of the 

 quality of butter which I produced, as much per pound as I 

 could from the whole milk creameries. 



Of course it is very nice to have the cream gatherer come 

 around and take the cream from your door, that is a very good 

 feature which is referred to in Mr. Turnbull's paper. But there 

 are other features beside that. I ran creameries in Orleans 

 county for two or three years. It is a fact that my patrons of 

 the other creameries got from a cent to a cent and a half a pound 

 more for their butter than in Orleans county. 



Suppose you make 300,000 pounds of butter a year in your 

 creamery and at another creamery your patrons would get a 

 cent a pound more than you pay, they would lose $3,000. Now, 

 gentlemen, can we explain it ? I understand how the matters 

 Mr. Turnbull has spoken of come about in regard to the change 

 from whole milk to cream. Some patrons have become dissatis- 

 fied in some creameries. They say, I will have a separator, I 

 won't take my milk to Mr. Smith's creamery; I will have a 

 separator; I will either make my own butter or go to Jones' 

 creamery and I can carry my cream once, twice or three times 

 a week (it is usually once). We wont carry to this man any 

 more milk, so Mr. Jones hears of this and he says, well, there 

 is a nice chance to work in with Mr. so and so; I will give this 

 man a little more than his stuff tests ; I will draw from Mr. 

 Smith's patronage over there, and he does it. The result is Mr. 

 Smith goes over there and he makes, perhaps, more than he 

 could at the other creamery. He tells his neighbor ; the neighbors 

 work into the same arrangement; they get a separator. I be- 



