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of filth had dropped into the pail at milking time. No butter 

 maker can remove these. There is no known process by which 

 the manure flavor can be extracted from milk or cream after it 

 is once there. Edward Atkinson told the Southern cotton grow- 

 ers the other day that the cotton boll weevil was a blessing if it 

 but stimulated them to activity and insured more of Yankee 

 thrift, enterprise and business methods in the growing of that 

 important crop. So, too, the fact that filth cannot be removed 

 from milk must rank as a help, rather than hindrance, provided 

 those liable to be afflicted are forced to observe the cleanly steps 

 which insure protection. 



The man who will not observe these conditions and deliver 

 pure milk or cream must be barred out, for the taint of his milk 

 pail will poison the mass. 



On another occasion I obtained a bottle of cream from a 

 grocery dealer, put up by a dairyman, which, after being opened, 

 and not kept on ice, was fresh, sweet and unchanged at the end 

 of five days. That man has no need of a pasteurizer or sterilizer 

 to apologize for his methods and needs no preservative to prevent 

 changes. Under right conditions, intelligent conditions, health- 

 ful conditions he is producing pure milk, pure cream and the de- 

 mand, at good prices, far exceeds the supply. 



Given such cream as this the duties of the butter maker 

 become a pleasure and a satisfaction, but to get it something more 

 is demanded than warm barns, clean tie-ups, sound grain and 

 good hay. The line of profit in all departments will, in the im- 

 mediate future, be found on the upper levels. Mediocrity neither 

 satisfies nor compensates, and if all the butter shipped from Ver- 

 mont went on the market as Vermont butter, the profits to the 

 dairymen would be very materially increased. Put upon you but- 

 ter makers the responsibility that attaches to their duties but be 

 sure that all the steps leading to the delivery of choice fresh cream 

 have been taken before hard words are spoken. 



Dairying is an industry, not a pastime, and the objective 

 points aimed at by the dairyman are profit from the cows and the 

 building up of the farm. It is well to remember one significant 

 fact, that in every time of business depression, when the fads 

 and fancies of breeding have failed to give satisfaction, when 

 ruin threatened, the good dairy cow and the milk pail have been 

 the salvation of the farmer. 



Sweet, fresh, natural grasses, either green or dry, and sound 

 grain have never been improved upon for the making of bone, 

 flesh, fat, milk or butter and if we would give more attention to 

 other matters and less to the protein contents of broom grass and 

 oat hulls, the farmers would be far better off. 



