SEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VII. 301 



German calls 'Tjuther;" you make that, but it is not butter. Where is 

 there a man here in this audience that can say if he makes 93 or 94, or a 

 very nice grade of butter, that he cannot make it 105, my friends, if he 

 had nice, sweet cream and milk to make it of? Could he not do it? 

 Certainly he could. 



You are all on the wrong track in advocating or upholding — I do not 

 care if the principle is here — I do not want you buttermakers to fall in 

 line and tumble all over yourselves and advocate this pri-nciple of hand 

 separation, because just as long as you have hand separators if you have 

 ninety thousand farmers, as some gentleman has said here, you will have 

 ninety tuousand kinds of cream, ninety thousand kinds of flavor, and you 

 would have ninety thousand kinds of butter if you made it separately. 

 Now when you get all that together see what a mess you are getting. 

 This cream is shipped in. They are not centralizing plants, gentlemen, 

 they are embalming plants. They dish their stuff out to the people 

 throughout the cities and it passes; it is put on a warm biscuit and it 

 does not really stink, but it goes because they do not smell this embalming 

 liquid that kills it, and it goes. It does not hurt anybody after it has 

 gone through that process. 



The idea is to get good raw material all the time. This you have to 

 contend with yourselves. You must get together yourselves, you must 

 come to these meetings, and when you have assembled here do not run 

 home or you will not get the good out of it. You want to get acquainted 

 with yourself, then go home and get acquainted with your patron, and as 

 long as this hand sfeparator system is here educate your patron to bring 

 good cream to you and the poor stuff to the other fellow; then when you 

 have them well educated do not allow anyone to come there and steal 

 your can of cream, be he centralizer, co-operative creamery or individual. 

 It matters not. 



You have to have laws to protect yourselves. You are not here as 

 beggars at the hands of the centralizers or your Legislature. What you 

 want and what you have to have is justice; you must have that or you 

 will not succeed. You are not having justice today, and you all know 

 that. When a man out in the country is following the advice of some 

 fellow who says "Cut it out," he is cutting himself out of the business, 

 and in a few years he will be so totally cut up that there will not be 

 enough of him left to talk about. Then what will you do, are you going 

 back to the centralizer and tell them to cut it out? No, you will not be 

 here to tell them that at all. 



What I want to bring before you is the objection to advocating a 

 system. If it is the hand separator system and it is here, you want to 

 teach your people the principle is wrong. You all know that if you can 

 make good butter out of hand separator cream you can make better butter 

 out of whole milk. Above all, keep your country creameries going by 

 keeping your cream at the home creamery, and if those people write to 

 you and tell you to cut it out, tell them that you will cut it out when you 

 receive justice at the hands of your lawmakers and the centralizers, and 

 not before. 



