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they saved the price of them the first twelve months they were operated 

 over what it cost them to run the big boiler and steam engine. He 

 further stated that the secretary of his creamery said they would be 

 money ahead if they had to buy a new engine and boiler every two years, 

 and the figures gave him ample backing in that statement. Mr. Soles 

 remarked that he would hate to go back in a creamery where he had to 

 operate a big boiler and steam engine. 



This is only one of many instances I could cite you to where the gaso- 

 line engine and small boiler combination is proving just as successful. 



As another evidence that I do not stand alone in my recommendations 

 for the gasoline engine, I quote the following from F. E. Willoughby, who 

 has made extensive investigations along this line. He writes: 



"The chief difference between the creameryman who succeeds and the 

 one who does not, is this: The successful creamery man is forever seek- 

 ing newer and more efficient methods of operating his plant. The unsuc- 

 cessful one is generally obsessed with the idea that he is too busy and 

 can't afford to waste his time on what he considers (because he has not 

 taken time to investigate) impractical and vagarious. 



"There always have been, and probably always will be, men who can 

 flash up fifty-seven reasons why a thing can't be done. Watt was wasting 

 his time; Stephenson, Pulton, McCormick, Edison and Marconi were 'im- 

 practical,' according to the men who have always had fifty-seven can'ts 

 on tap. Nevertheless, while the can'ters can'ted, these great men did the 

 things that count. 



"There are probably fifty-seven good 'can'ts' why a gasoline engine is 

 not adapted for use in a creamery. We have heard them all. The evidence 

 of the value or adaptability of any machine is its behavior in practice, all 

 the can'ts in the world to the contrary, notwithstanding. The proof of 

 the pudding is in the eating. Not only can the gasoline engine be used 

 In the creamery and effect a big saving but it is being done. In actual 

 service the gasoline engine has demonstrated that its use in the creamery 

 means a saving of fuel, labor and time. In reply to an inquiry sent out, 

 one creamery man, who is operating three plants and using. gasoline en- 

 gines in all of them, says, after enumerating a number of the advantages 

 of the gasoline over the steam engine: 'The advantages are so many 

 that it would take me too long to explain them all here.' 



"Another writes, regarding an 8 H. P. gasoline engine he is using: 

 'I use it for all my creamery power, except running the turbine tester. I 

 churn, separate, pump and run the power ripener with it. Also can make 

 ice cream with it as power. I save about an hour mornings, as we do not 

 have to wait to get up steam before churning. I have a boiler for heating 

 water, but only need a small amount of steam and so use little coal, ex- 

 cept for heating in winter. I find coal and gasoline bills together are 

 less than two-thirds what my coal bill alone was when I used steam. 

 We have to use power for an hour or two evenings in cooling and temper- 

 ing the cream, but do not need to keep a head of steam for this purpose, 

 now that we have the gasoline engine. When its work is done we shut it 

 off, and there is no waste, as in the case of steam. I find this engine wilL 

 carry two churns and the separator and pump without slowing the speed. 



