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should be, for here is the corrective power, but bear in mind that 

 what you insist upon at the factory is possible only when, as a 

 milk or cream producer, you have been as faithful and as exact 

 in the performance of those duties which begin at the foundation 

 of the herd and cease only when the milk or cream passes out 

 of your hands at the factory door. This dual responsibility may 

 well be urged or there is no lesson to enforce. 



So interwoven are our lives that success can come only by 

 each and every one contributing to the success of the whole. The 

 farmer who allows his pastures to grow up to weeds and other 

 low grade grasses puts an insurmountable obstacle in the path 

 of the butter maker who prepares the finished product for market. 

 There's a logical sequence to things which has not been sought as 

 it must in the days to come and this essential principle of interde- 

 pendence calls for recognition to-day as never before. You can- 

 not discuss the butter as a single factor in the industry but as one 

 spoke in the wheel which must be complete in all its parts for that 

 spoke to maintain its position. 



We discuss the province of machinery, the necessity for 

 scientific research, the importance of the general laws which hedge 

 the producer of milk, but too often we think of these as separate 

 and distinct, whereas no plea can be made for the butter maker 

 which does not reach back to the beginning and emphasize details, 

 familiar, yet too often forgotten, out upon the farms and in the 

 tie-ups. You look to your butter maker to insure you returns 

 in the market. What provision have you, as milk and cream 

 makers, made for the full performance of your duties in the case ? 

 NO' chain was ever stronger than its weakest link and this chain 

 reaches from the package, ready for shipment, back through the 

 factory or dairy room, past the cream cans and gatherer, to the 

 separator, the milk pail, tie-ups, cow, feed and the man, and the 

 last shall be first in the final score for success. Upon no other 

 than this broad and comprehensive platform can the plea for the 

 butter maker be made, hence I ask your attention to a brief re- 

 view of those duties and principles so often described, so famiHar 

 to all that nothing new can be expected, yet so necessary in the 

 building of the line of ofifense or defense which has for its final 

 outcome that grade of product known commercially as Vermont 

 butter. 



Consciously or unconsciously we must stand shoulder to 

 shoulder with an exacting market, ever lifting its demands before 

 us, calling always for quality, or there is failure and disappoint- 

 ment as the result of our labor. The butter maker is but a single 

 factor in the long line of agents centering in the finished product. 



I went to the market the other day for a bottle of cream for 

 the table, which, when opened,, told unmistakably that particles 



