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the looks of your creamery surroundings, you are unconsciousy becoming 

 better fitted for your work, the appearance of your creamery and the 

 butter you are turning out is your advertisement and sooner or later it 

 will be the means of your promotion. 



Never has there been such a demand for good butter-makers as there 

 is at present. Can you recommend a good man for us, we want one who 

 is able to make good and we are willing to pay the salary. It is not 

 a question of salary anymore, it is how much you can earn. We never 

 have any calls for cheap men. The world is full of the ordinary kind 

 in all trades. 



I am not aware of any vocation that offers more opportunities than 

 is in store for the competent butter-maker; it is only recently the cream- 

 eries have learned of the benefit derived by employing the most competent 

 men. 



New and up-to-date equipment is added every year and it is the butter- 

 maker who is able to keep abreast with the times that will be in demand. 

 If you are able through special efforts, to turn out a better grade of 

 butter than formerly, your creamery will be ahead that much. If you 

 succeed in reducing the running expenses of your creamery ever so little 

 or, if you are able through a systematic record of your work in making 

 a slight increase in the amount of butter from a given amount of butter- 

 fat. These are items all of which have a direct bearing on the suc- 

 cessful operation of your creamery. 



The work of the butter-maker in the future will not be confined within 

 the four walls of the creamery. He will, in addition to the creamery 

 interest himself and his patrons in better dairying. He will assist his 

 patrons in more economical milk production, encourage the testing of 

 milk from the individual cows and thereby showing the patrons the differ- 

 ence in good and poor ones, and the profit which may be obtained if 

 better care and more liberal feed is given. If the patrons can be inter- 

 ested in this way your creamery will soon show a marked increase in 

 their business and you will be proving your services of great value to 

 them. 



It is encouraging indeed to note the success of the creameries through 

 the efforts of the enterprising butter-maker, and the interest they take 

 in this important industry. May it continue; may these sessions and 

 the few hours we spend together inspire and encourage us to do our 

 part well. Remember that each successful creamery is a mighty factor 

 in building up the dairy industry not alone in their respective commun- 

 ities but of your great commonwealth. 



The President: I am sorry that there were not more here to 

 hear Mr. Storvick. I think his talk has been a splendid one, and it 

 is along the lines that we have given a great deal of thought, and 

 I am glad that he agrees with me in this fact, that the dairymen 

 and buttermakers should stand together. 



Prof. Mortensen was to have talked this afternoon, but I think 

 we will wedge him in in the morning. The secretary of the Com- 



