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those cream plants. But only this do we find, we find that cream 

 that has been skimmed on the Sabbath and allowed tO' go from 

 station to station for four days is unfit to make butter from and 

 that is the thing we find, — and that only. If they will take 

 that cream and keep it in good condition, I have no fight 

 against the centralized plant at all. The man that can make the 

 best butter the cheapest from given material is the one that 

 aught to doi the work, whether local plant or centralizing plant, — 

 we all agree on that. 



Where does the farm.cr stand in this thing? I would 

 like to have a whole milk creamery and rim it ; but I would want 

 the patrons to bring the milk to it. I want to see the patrons 

 occasionally. I want them to see what we are doing; that we are 

 doing our share all right. I like to have the farmer come down to 

 the creamery and look into the books if you will. It might take 

 us a week to straighten out the things that he thought 

 he saw, but did not in the creamery. But what are you 

 going to do with the man that lives twoi hundred miles from 

 the concern that buys his fat? Who will regulate the test? Some- 

 one in this state is trying to find out actually how much fat the 

 producers do deliver and then how much is paid for it. 



Mr. Wright : I do not want to leave the discussion of the 

 matter just here because the gentleman has not told the whole 

 story. I agree with all he says about the iniquities of the farmer 

 that does not produce good cream, and I agree to all that and 

 then some; but I want to tell you that the fellow that buys that 

 cream is the one that ought to be fined. You give me a law 

 and men enough to enforce it with any sort of degree of com- 

 pleteness, a law that will fine the creamery operator for receiv- 

 ing a pound of this bad cream, and I will guarantee to increase 

 the quality of the butter in this state lo per cent in the next year; 

 but you continue the law which you have, which says that a man 

 may be fined for selling that cream to the creamery, — but that 

 is too big for me to tackle, if I lived to be a thousand years old 

 I could not do anything with it that way. We cannot make that 

 man more honest, honorable and clean by means oi a law that 

 will get after him and fine him $25, but when you have five or 



