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you these facts simply to get you thinking about this situation and 

 encourage you in the belief that the small creamery will predomi- 

 nate and eventually, as in the ease in Vermont where the first cen- 

 tralizer was ever started it has been put out of business to-day by 

 the co-operative creameries in that territory. The economical pro- 

 position is absolutely WTong. If you double the cost of manufac- 

 ture by the central system it is a wrong proposition and a well 

 managed co-operative creamery, as you say, can walk them out and 

 are doing it in different parts of the country. 



Mr. Hubbell : Have you figures to show that the large central- 

 izers pay the same price in all communities? 



Prof. Webster: A centralizer told me that "because of com- 

 petition we have to pay more in some places than in others." 



The Chairman : This is a very interesting subject and we 

 would be glad to give you all the afternoon if we had tlie time to 

 devote to this subject, but we will have to pass on to the next. 



I had in mind quite a number of things that I wanted to say in 

 introducing the gentleman that will next address you, but I don't 

 know of anything I could say that will add to his reputation and 

 luster as a man who has stood for the last thirty years or thirty-five 

 years for the dairy cow. I became acquainted with Governor 

 Hoard about twenty-five years ago. In my work traveling through 

 Wisconsin I made Fort Atkinson and Governor Hoard was then 

 publishing the Jefferson County Union, and I think his influence 

 has had more to do with whatever I had to do with dairying and 

 the cattle interests than almost any other man. I was struggling 

 then to get a few hundred dollars together to get started in the 

 dairy business and I do not know that I ever called at Fort Atkin- 

 son that I did not go in and have a talk with the gentleman that 

 will now address you, Governor Hoard. 



DAIRY FARMING. 



W. D. HOARD, FORT ATKINSON, WIS. 



Mr. President, Oentlemen of the Convention: — I am in some respects 

 like my friend, Professor Webster; I have reduced what I want to say 

 to you to writing for two purposes, — one for your sake that you may not 

 be inflicted upon by an interminable talk, the other for my sake that I 

 can say as little as possible. 



As much as we may strive to exalt the creamery or the cheese factory, 

 still there remains this great, everlasting truth that we cannot go ahead 

 of the proposition with any safety to ourselves. It is given to but few 

 men to act the part of a Sherman, guide men from their base of supplies. 



