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and we hope that this will show us the way. I don't believe too much in 

 philanthropy; I don't believe too much in depending on the state or gov- 

 ernment. I believe we ought to help ourselves. 



Studying the dairy industry from a national standpoint, we find condi- 

 tions are not standing still, and I have little hopes for the dairyman who 

 does not handle his dairy as a strictly business proposition. I believe 

 within the next ten years we are going to see in many sections fewer 

 farms because the conditions in existence now are not such as to be condu- 

 cive to systematic and intelligent farming. Conditions are changing and 

 dairymen must also change. I believe that Iowa has taken up the proper 

 work and that it will result in the raising of the quality of your butter 

 and help us in the solution of our farm questions. I thank you. 



Mr. Barney : I am sure you have all been much interested in 

 this splendid address. I don't think he has made anything too 

 strong. We have a few minutes now for discussion. 



Member : I would like to ask a question. I have been interested 

 in the creamery business for twenty-five years and am at present 

 located at LaPorte. "We are running on the hand separator sys- 

 tem and we have wagons to cover the entire territory, but we have, 

 and I think it is the same in almost all towns along the railroad, 

 men who are buying cream as a side line to their other business, 

 whatever that may be. These centralizers will come in this way 

 and if you say a word to one of your patrons about poor cream he 

 will take it to one of these buyers and get as much for it as you 

 pay for good quality. I wish to ask how we are going to pro- 

 tect ourselves against this kind of competition? How are we going 

 to prevent the farmers from holding their cream from a week to 

 ten days when another company will take it at a top price? 



Mr. Rawl: I don't propose to offer a solution for every local 

 condition that may exist. I say that it is right that cream should 

 be paid for by grade, and it is wrong to pay for it in any other 

 way. Let us ask ourselves if we have done what we could to ex- 

 plain to these patrons what it means to handle poor cream. Again, 

 have not the creameries as a whole taken the sweet and the sour, 

 mixed it all together and paid the market price for it ? Have they 

 done what they could to get their patrons to understand the situ- 

 ation. I believe in mutual agreement. I believe the creamery and 

 the farmer must talk it over and come to a better understanding. 

 "We have unfair creamery people in the business, it is true, but 

 let us ourselves do all we can to make the farmer understand that 

 in order for him to receive the highest price for his cream it must 

 be of the highest quality. 



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