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mission house in Boston. That is all right, but the commission 

 men in Boston and all over New England are out for business 

 and some of the creamery men are out for business, they will 

 take anything you send to them and say it is all right, they get 

 their commission. 



A Member: — I have been in the creamery business for the 

 last 20 years, and had, probably, the same experience Mr. Eddy 

 has, mv last four years has been mostly with the gathered cream. 

 Half a dozen Boston men handled my butter for fifteen or twenty 

 years, but in the last three or four years they have kept asking 

 ^vhat the trouble was with our butter that there was such a big 

 difference. Give me the whole milk for all the cream gathered. 

 ' Secretary Davis : — I think one important reason why farmers 

 p'-efer the cream gathering system and having their milk separ- 

 ated at home is because the sweet milk is so much better for 

 their calves and pigs than it is when it goes to the creamery 

 and mixes with everybody's milk, in hot weather it is sour be- 

 fore they reach home and it is not as good for our calves and 

 pigs. 



Mr. Smith: — Mr. Eddy spoke about sending butter to a 

 commissioner. I do not sell my butter on commission, my but- 

 ter is contracted on a basis with the Boston markets, and I 

 know beforehand just what I am going to get for my butter. 



Mr. Turnbuli : — I agree with the other gentlemen about 

 separators not being run as they ought to be, but there is another 

 thing that must not be lost sight of and that is that your separ- 

 ated milk is in the best condition possible; that makes up some 

 for the loss of cream by the different speed of the separator. 



Blood : — Just a word. I do not believe that any of us want 

 to misrepresent anything and it is reasonable to think that both 

 sides are right to a certain extent. There is no manner of doubt 

 but what in certain localities the cream gathering system might 

 be the best under all conditions for the farmers in that locality. 

 On the other hand in another locality the whole milk system is 

 better and more beneficial in that community, see? We do not 

 say the cream is the best to make butter from, under the cream 

 gathering system, because it is not. 



Jackson : — Let me inquire of Mr. Blood if he ever knew of 

 a cream gathering system that went back to the whole milk 

 system ? 



Blood :- — I will answer that in Sullivan county in the State 

 of New Hampshire Mr. N. G. Williams, secretary and treasurer 

 of the Vermont Farm Machinery Co., told me there was a cream- 

 ery built in the town where he lived about 21 years ago, it was 

 built on the cream gathering system, with the old Cooley can, 



