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some such measures as the gentlemen have taken in the State of 

 Maine. It is for the interests of the farmers of this state to do 

 this, and if there are any creamery men here I should be glad to 

 hear from them. 



Mr. Smith : — I do not know that I have thought very much 

 about this subject, but the thought has struck me that as a cream- 

 ery man I do not want this poor cream at any price, I would 

 rather the the other fellow would have it, and it seems to me 

 that a patron that will not give me cream that will make No. i 

 butter, that will command the top market price. I would rather 

 let the other fellow have him for a patron because he is an injurv 

 to the creamery, an injury to us at anv price. I do not want that, 

 no one else wants it. I want to make first class butter and I do 

 not want a man who supplies poor cream for a patron, that is 

 mv standpoint. I do not believe it is necessary for us, as cream- 

 ery men, to have poor cream or poor milk. 



Now, it has been suggested that competition is so sharp 

 that a creamerv man would take cream that he didn't really profit 

 by. for sake of holding his patron. Now, I am in the creamery 

 business to stay. I am not in the creamery business for this year, 

 but I am in the business for ten years from now, for all I know. 

 I am working along that line. If I have a patron that is dis- 

 satisfied, if he won't bring good cream, if he won't bring good 

 m.ilk and if it is not satisfactory, well and good if he goes to 

 another creamery I am glad of it. I do not want it. and I believe 

 in the end I will get more patronage and more business and that 

 I will make more money, and my patrons will be better satisfied. 

 Mr. Eddy: — Do you think this method will educate the 

 farmers? Don't you think some one else will take their cream if 

 you do not take it, and that they will keep along making cream 

 that is not up to the standard? 



Mr. Smith : — I think my method will educate the patron, be- 

 cause if I can get all good cream I can get all good butter and I 

 shall get a good price for it and I can pay my patrons more than 

 the creamery man who receives poor cream and makes a poor 

 quality of butter and in the end this patron will come to see it, 

 and it will learn him that it is better to deliver good cream and 

 good milk. 



President Bruce : — We are very glad to have discussion along 

 these lines. It is important it seems to me that creamery men 

 should stand together. We do not know one another well enough. 

 Competition ought not to be as great as it is, we should stand 

 together. 



We have with vis a speaker from Maine. You heard him 

 last evening at the banquet and after his address there will be 



