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First — City Milk. The man who has a sufficient number 

 of cows and lives near a large city can generally find a market 

 in that city which will pay him more ready cash than any other 

 market. He sells his whole milk there at retail or at wholesale, 

 or both. He must, however, be content to give his whole at- 

 tention to his dairy work and not raise very much young stock 

 because he, of course, does not have his skim milk for feeding 

 purposes. As a rule, such a producer is not what we would 

 term a good dairyman. He is a buyer and seller of ordinary 

 cows, looking for high producers, and is content to get a few 

 years' service out of the heavy producers and then get rid of 

 them. Producing milk for city consumption is not a business 

 which tends to develop the kind of dairymen that are the back- 

 bone of the dairy industry, although, of course, they fill an im- 

 portant place in society. 



Second — Dairy Butter. In spite of the fact that the 

 creamery business has developed until there are about 10,000 

 creameries in the United States, we are told that about one- 

 half of the butter made in this country is made in home dairies. 

 Of course, a large per cent of this dairy butter does not get 

 upon the market. A large part of it is consumed in the home 

 where it is made. Some dairymen are so situated both geo- 

 graphically and in a domestic way so that they can find a market 

 for butter which returns them as high a price throughout the 

 year as a good creamery can offer them. This is not true gen- 

 erally, however, and even where it is true, it often happens that 

 the good housewife is burdened with this chore because of her 

 patience rather than choice. There is still too much poor 

 butter made in this country and sold to the grocery store. Its 

 quality is generally poor, and before it can be consumed it must 

 go to the renovating factory and be made over. The process 

 and renovating butter factories stand as monuments to the 

 shortsightedness or carelessness of a certain class of cream pro- 

 ducers who might patronize some creamery because there are 

 very few farmers living where they cannot reach a modern 

 market for their dairy products. 



Third — Local Cheese Factories and Creameries. Of course, 

 when hand separators come into a community the cheese factory 

 gets out, if it was ever there. Whether it is a cheese factory or 

 a creamery, there must be the right kind of co-operative sen- 

 timent in a community in order to make the local market a 

 successful one. Please keep in mind, too, that when we use 



