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Mr. Johnson: I have just two or three minutes to make an an- 

 nouncement. There are 176 entries of butter and it will be shown 

 at the Kimball printing office right after dinner. At 6 :30 tonight 

 the butter will be sold at auction by F. M. Brown, the official auc- 

 tioneer of this association, at the Ellis hotel. The only regret is 

 that there is not a prize for each of you. 



Adjournment. 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 2:15. 



The President: We have with us this afternoon Mr. A. 0. Stor- 

 vick, an inspector on the Minnesota Dairy and Food Commission, 

 who will speak to us on "The Buttermaker as a Factor in Success- 

 ful Creamery Operation." ., . 



THE BUTTERMAKER AS A FACTOR IN SUCCESSFUL CREAMERY 



OPERATION. 



A. O. STORVICK. 



Fellow Dairymen. — If you will bear with, me a few moments this after- 

 noon I will give you a* few facts that I have observed in regards to the 

 problems we are facing. I wish to congratulate you on the great success 

 of your convention, and I am frank in admitting that it is way ahead of 

 we Minnesota fellow's in this respect, that you have the dairymen and 

 creamerymen together. We have made tw f o associations, but have been 

 trying to get them together. 



One of the requisite factors in operating a creamery is the buttermaker 

 and in successful creamery operation he is the most important factor. 

 The name buttermaker was applied to the man who made the butter, when 

 the first attempt was made to gather the cream from a number of farms 

 where the cream could be churned in large factory churns in order to 

 secure a more uniform grade of butter to be placed upon the market. 

 While the name buttermaker at that time perhaps was appropriate the 

 buttermaker of today has outgrown this name and we ought to call 

 him a creamery superintendent or some name having a broader meaning, 

 as the creamery operators of today have many duties aside from simply 

 making the butter. 



We have different classes of buttermakers and you wall pardon me if 

 I censure or cast reflections on some of those following this profession as 

 I am well aware of the fact that the buttermakers within the hearing of 

 my voice are the boys who strive to learn more and more how to better 

 serve the people in whose employ they are, and they are here for this 

 purpose and expect to leave this convention with more knowledge and 

 energy to help them in this important work. 



