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sure there would not be many sending it away from home cream- 

 eries, but the trouble is they do not know the value of their cream 

 and if they think they are getting first grade price from the cen- 

 tralizer they are satisfied. 



Prof. Smith : There is one question I want to ask Mr. 

 Wright, and that is are there not laws in this state of cream and 

 corn, that upholds the hands of Mr. Wright in stopping the manu- 

 facture of so called "first class" butter from cream that is so old 

 that it is gray headed and so rotten that it stinks ? 



Mr. Wright : Mr. Chairman, I am glad to say that in those 

 extreme cases there is plenty of law to fix the fellow that sells the 

 cream, but he is only one-half the guilty party. The fellow that 

 gets it is the man that ought to get it in the neck. We have a law 

 for the man that sells adulterated or unwholesome cream or 

 milk, but we have no law to punish the man that takes it. 



Prof. Smith : In Michigan, we have a law that stands by the 

 state dairy and food commissioner in this fight, but I tell you 

 there are a whole lot of difficulties in enforcing that law. Time 

 does not permit to go into' details but you sit and think about the 

 matter a moment and you will see a whole lot of conflicting 

 interests that arise as sure as you begin to enforce it. From the 

 outside you are going to make trouble for the innocent party, 

 if there be an innocent party. 



Mr. Chairman, I agree with Mr. Wright that the way to begin 

 is with the education of the farmer. Your gathered cream 

 hangs on this contingency. It strikes me, as I said last year, that 

 your gathered cream, the use of the hand separator in the future 

 is contingent upon farmers becoming fairly good mechanics 

 and certainly clean men. 



When I go down to your gathered cream plant and see you 

 take out cream from a farmer that was instructed by an agent 

 who sold the machine that he need not wash the machine more 

 than once a week, and then only when convenient, that he can 

 keep his cream until he gets a can full and gets ready to send it, 

 until you have outgrown that class of influence, your hand sepa- 

 rator butter is going to sell in New York ; it ought to sell in New 



