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an inducement for producing high-class cream, is actually 

 encouraged by the situation to careless practices in the handl- 

 ing of his product. It is not practicable for the local cream- 

 ery to reject his cream, because then he can ship it to the cen- 

 tral plants. Up to the present, the cream has nearly all been 

 paid for at the same price, regardless of its quality of clean- 

 liness or wholesomeness. Practically the only grading of 

 cream, as now practiced, is based on the percentage of butter 

 fat, a less price being paid for low testing cream. If it were 

 practicable for a creamery to receive all cream not unfit for 

 the making of human food, and then make two grades of it, 

 to be kept separate in the creamery and made into two lots of 

 butter and sold and the butter fat paid for at its real value, 

 then the farmer would have no cause to complain at all and 

 would have an inducement of a cent and a half to two cents 

 a pound for producing a better quality of cream. Not only 

 would this be true with the man who now produces second 

 grade stuff, but the same facts would be an inducement to the 

 man who is now producing good cream, because, under the 

 present system, he gets no more for the good cream which he 

 produces at considerable extra expense and labor than does the 

 other man, whose cream is bad. 



Experience has shown, however, that such a plan would 

 not probably be followed, except in a few cases. Then there 

 is the further question of what legal enactments and measures 

 would be of value in bringing about the desired result. The 

 statute, at the present, provides a penalty for the sale of unwhole- 

 some cream, a statute that was enacted to cover the sale of sweet 

 cream for immediate consumption, and which, of course, would 

 be applicable in cases where unwholesome cream is sold or 

 delivered to a creamery. The enforcement of this statute by 

 the dairy commissioner is not at all practicable on account of 

 the great number of sales of cream to be inspected, and for 

 the further reason that, under the present situation, a partial 

 enforcement, such as could be secured, would only serve as an 

 irritation in view of the fact that so many of the creameries 

 are willing and anxious to accept cream in any condition what- 



