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own product. The result is we have done business for four 

 seasons. This last season 2-3 of our business has been gathered 

 cream. The farmers in our section will not take the time to 

 take their milk and send a man to us, they had rather own their 

 separator and we send a team and gather the cream, and we have 

 so far experienced no bad effects from the butter we have made. 

 We have taken great pains to go around among the farmers and 

 see that they take care of the cream. I take exception to the 

 statement that a man cannot take care of his cream as well as 

 his milk. The farmers will not bring their milk to the station 

 and we have got to do the next best thing and that is to gather 

 their cream and educate them up to taking care of it. That is 

 the best we can do. 

 . _ J. A. Gallagher :— I take it only fair that Mr. Turnbull should 

 give us the reason why he is compelled to make butter from the 

 cream gathered system rather than from milk. The farmers 

 m Orleans compelled all the creameries to make butter from 

 cream. We have had experience the other way; of bringing 

 milk to the creamery, and the farmers insist upon having the 

 cramery send a team to collect the cream. That was the con- 

 dition of our locaUty and I presume it has been so in others. 



Mr. I'urnbull :~I will say that when I had my first creamery, 

 14 years ago next March, it was a cream gathering creamery, 

 had been run three years, one year as a milk creamery and the 



rest of the time as a cream gathering one. I theorized a little 



had not had much experience— wondered if it was not possible 

 to start that creamery as a milk creamery. I went around and 

 I could not get a single person to deliver milk, I was obliged to 

 start mto cream gathering, \^q^at experience I had had in the 

 butter business was in a cream gathering creamery in the town 

 of Glover. I tried to start a milk creamery and could not do it, 

 so I was compelled to take up the other. 



A Member : — Do you know any farmers that would go back 

 to the other system? 



Turnbull: — They would not. 



Mr. Fish:— I am not, going to discuss this cream question. 

 There is one pomt on which there has been nothing said. The 

 great point is that the farmers where they lose the most in thei^ 

 separators is that they let little Jolin run the separator in the 

 morning and then little Julia will run it at night, some of the 

 tnne they run it slow and some of the time they run it fast; thev 

 lose a lot of cream in the skim milk. That is one of the Wors't 

 things we have to contend with. You have got to keep up the 

 speed to get the cream. 



Mr. Eddy:— Some one asked Mr. Smith a while ago what 

 he did with his butter and I think he said he sold it to a com- 



