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and cream and such other work and instruction that may be desired. 

 Organize the creameries and dairymen in this way and you will begin to 

 accomplish something. 



Let the buttermakers of this association organize for the purpose of 

 an educational scoring contest. Have them send a tub of butter once 

 a month to some central point tributary to these factories. Procure 

 some competent judge to do the scoring. The tub scoring the highest 

 from each of these organizations could be sent to some central point ana 

 re-scored. In this way you could determine where and under what cir- 

 cumstances the best butter was being made, and it would create an in- 

 terest among the buttermakers. 



To illustrate. Suppose Jones and Smith were neighbor buttermakers, 

 and belonged to this organization. They send butter regularly to the 

 monthly scoring contest. Jones has the good luck to score a little higher 

 than Smith. Don't you suppose Smith would begin to look around to 

 see what the trouble was — to find out why Jones was getting a higher 

 score? About the first thing Smith would do would be to start an inves- 

 tigation. He would first look after the cleanliness of his creamery. 

 Then he would go after his patrons and tell thorn that his neighbors 

 were making better butter than he was, but under different circum- 

 stances, and if they intended to get to the front and stay among the top- 

 notchers they would have to take better care of their cream. They 

 would have to deliver it more than once or twice a week. No butter- 

 maker, no matter how proficient he may be, can make butter from cream 

 a week or so old. 



He would tell them more than this. He would tell them that the time 

 had come when every patron would have to sit up and take notice. If 

 they intended to remain in the dairy business they must certainly take 

 better care of their cream, deliver it in a more wholesome and sanitary 

 condition. If this was done there is no reason why he could not make 

 just as good butter as his neighbors. 



I believe something of this kind, if accomplished, in the way of edu- 

 cational work, would do more to improve the dairy and creamery inter- 

 ests than anything elso. 



Now just a word to the buttermakers. Systematize your work. Keep 

 your creameries clean, neat and tidy both inside and out. Do everything 

 you possibly can to attract attention. Plant a few flowers in summer 

 about your creameries. Keep your yard and driveway in a nice clean 

 and attractive way. You may think this does not amount to much but 

 just try it and see if you do not get a better quality of cream. You 

 should keep everything about your creamery so nice and clean that your 

 patrons will be ashamed to bring you poor cream. 



Chairman: H. E. Fowler, of Hanlontown, is next on the pro- 

 gram. 



CREAM SCORING AND RESULTS, 



BY H. E. FOWLEE, HANLONTON, IOWA. 



The subject that has been assigned me is simply a new way of educat- 

 ing the patron in the proper care of his raw material. The great task 



