SEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VII. 311 



Let us for a minute take up the cause or causes, and I think the 

 remedy will be morg self-evident. If we familiarize ourselves with all 

 of the various causes for this discord, it will become more simple to 

 remedy them and, according to my experience, there are almost as 

 many different remedies as you find different creameries, hardly any 

 two of which present exactly the same conditions. 



Almost all of the unharmonious conditions of a creamery may be 

 classed under the following headings: Ignorance, prejudice, dishonesty, 

 petty jealousies and incompetence. These are directly or indirectly re- 

 sponsible for most of the discord and jangle. 



Ignorance. — How many times for lack of knowledge as how to 

 understand a test or to realize the importance of an improvement ex- 

 pense have patrons and directors started a strife — many. In paying 

 for butter or by the churn yield, when a competitor is paying for fat 

 or the reverse, will very often lose you patronage and cause complaint. 

 Too, a farmers' creamery for fear of adding a small expense, which. 

 If pro-rated, would not be known or felt, will allow their plant to run 

 down until it will require several hundred dollars to fix up what a 

 few dollars spent at the proper time would do. Such a condition always 

 finds its kickers, and the buttermaker Is to blame for it all. 



PREJt'DicE. — I class this as no small factor, and a farmer with a 

 notion is surely pulling the wrong way. The result of this usually is a 

 neighborhood quarrel, which inevitably ends in demoralization, loss of 

 patronage, change of officers and many times the buttermaker himself. 

 From experience we all know, that to promote harmony, we should get 

 away from all of these things. 



I have known of dishonest methods causing friction and trouble, as, 

 for instance, the manipulation of the tests or weights on the part of 

 the buttermaker, or the watering of milk, the stealing of cream or 

 Ekimmed milk on the part of the farmer, but of all the trouble a farm- 

 ers' co-operative creamery is heir to. to my notion, a large per cent, 

 comes through petty jealousies, neighborhood strife and clannishness. 

 You have all seen the results — a community of several nationalities 

 fighting for the control of a creamery. The jealousy of an individual 

 of the success of a secretary, buttermaker or board of directors — or 

 that getting-even feeling, sometimes the retaliation f-or having returned 

 poor milk and cream, or because the buttermaker discovered you watering 

 your milk and taking the top of the cream for the coifee, or perhaps 

 making the weekly butter at the expense of the creamery. These will 

 do more than all the rest to break up harmony and success, and you 

 cannot have a good healthy creamery without everybody with their 

 shoulder to the wheel, working for the good of the business unselfishly. 



I have told you something of cause, and to a large extent blamed 

 the farmers or officers. I now have a word to brother buttermakers, 

 for we too are many times to blame for unsuccessful conditions. Do 

 not take a creamery at a cut in wages and afterwards neglect or com- 

 plain of more work than you can do, for you alone are to blame. Do 

 not go fishing or take the afternoon nap and neglect to clean up or stir 

 the cream. Don't be late in the morning, and make the early farmer 

 wait for his milk. And it is also to be borne in mind, that we have 



