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this vou have an object lesson for the balance of your patrons, that is 

 sure to result in good for the creamery. Others will drop in line, and 

 before many seasons have passed, you will have a large list of practical 

 dairymen as patrons, who will add to. their herds as they are able to 

 handle them. \\'ith this favorable sentiment created, it should be fos- 

 tered by handling patrons so that you will retain their confidence. This 

 done, the business will show a healthy growth each season. 



SOME PHASES OF BUTTER-^IAKIXG. 



(Prof. E. H. Webster, Kansas Agricultural College.) 



It is with pleasure that I meet with you today, and that pleasure is 

 made doubly great through the fact that there are here on the platform 

 those under whom I received some of my early lessons in butter-making, 

 and whom I am still glad to call my teachers. I refer to Prof. McKay, 

 of Iowa, and your own Prof. Eckles. 



I do not propose to give you a lot of advice. In doing that I should 

 be reminded of the saying of Uncle Remus, ''Whenebber one gibs me a 

 whole lot of advice, I can't help suspicionin' that if his opinions were so 

 valuable, he would be somewhere else countin' his money." 



If the butter-maker needs consolation let him turn to the 15th chap- 

 ter of Job, and read between lines as follows : 



"The butter-maker that is born of woman, is of few days and full 

 of trouble; he cometh forth like a flower and is cut down, he fleeth also 

 as a shadow from an irate patron, and continueth not long in that land. 

 'And dost thou, oh ! commission man ! open thine eyes to such a one and 

 bring him unto judgment with thee? Who can bring clean butter out 

 of unclean milk? Xot one." Job must have been a butter-maker, and 

 he had a retinue of consoling friends, which were very much like their 

 cousins in this latter day. This is another reason why I will not pre- 

 sume to give you advice. 



If, however, there is anything in my remarks that will help any one 

 of you to see a little more clearly the relation of things, anything that 

 will help you over a tight place, or if I can hold out a ray of hope to 

 some one who now sees through a glass darkly, the time will not have 

 been lost, and I shall have another reason for being glad that I am with 

 you. 



It is a grand thing to have an ideal, a high ideal, and yet in our 

 striving after such a conception we are all too apt to lose sight of the 

 stubborn facts that surround us. Ijy the "we"' here, I mean the class of 

 dairy writers, which includes myself, who are always telling how to 



