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York for a less price than the butter made from sweet cream, 

 ripened in the proper way, but you commission men are putting 

 out to the trade a butter that is made from this bad cream and 

 selling it for the same price they are getting for clean goods. 

 Why? Because there is so much of it that in the aggregate they 

 make just as much money and I tell you this thing is surrounded 

 -on all sides by a whole lot of difficulties. 



I intended to say something in my address tonight on this 

 point, but I think it might as well be threshed out now. In 

 Michigan we are against the centralizing plant that ships cream 

 more than fifty miles. I went into a gathered cream plant 

 about a month ago and saw the man receiving cream, and some 

 of it was in very bad condition. I took the cover off a certain 

 can and found the cream very bad indeed. I traced it back to 

 a certain point and I visited the skimming station where it was 

 shipped from. Then I took pains and went up tO' see the man 

 who skimmed the cream. I found his separators conveniently 

 located so he had to carry his whole milk only across the width 

 of one stall to get it from the cow tO' the machine ; he had to carry 

 his skim milk only ten feet to get it from the separator to the pig 

 that needed to consume it. That concern is making six tons of 

 butter every week day, and every pound of it is a damage and 

 curse to the reputation of Michigan. 



By the art of the maker he has been able to inject into that 

 cream an amount of well made starter, because the boy that makes 

 the butter was trained in the dairy school and knows how toi make 

 as good an article as we can teach him. By the use of 20 per- 

 cent starter he conceals the character of that butter. It goes to 

 New York in fair condition but if they only keep it ten days it 

 will be so fishy it can swim bu tthey do not keep it ten days, 

 they rush it off to the trade. 



If the gathered cream plant will be so guarded by law 

 and so watched by a diary and feed inspection supported by law. 

 that no unwholesome cream, shall go into the butter, I am in 

 favor of the centralizing plant. Iwould not miss the figures 

 which our friend Wright has given us today for anything. It 

 is an argument that I did not expect because I have been so 

 stupid as to suppose that it was economical to make butter in 



