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such stuif as this ? No wonder the quantity of second quality buttev 

 increased, and the making- of first quality butter became confined to 

 milk supply factories, and a very few of the best managed cream 

 factories. The result achieved by these few factories, let it be said, 

 reflects the greatest credit on the management. 



Remedies. 



It is in dealing with this state of atf airs that most of our time is 

 engaged, but the tremendous nature of tlie task makes it ditficnlt to 

 overcome. 



Our eiforts have been directed towards the rejection of unsuitable 

 cans, proper storing of cream on the farm, cleanliness in all details 

 and a regular delivery of cream. Most cream immediately after 

 separation is in a condition, if properly looked after, to make good 

 butter. The sooner it is placed in the hands of the managers tlie 

 better are the chances of the resulting butter being good. 



The proper ripening of cream requires scientific knowledge, and 

 expensive buildings and appliances, then how can it be successfully 

 done on the farm, for even though the farmer may have the know- 

 ledge the facilities are absent, and he thinks the consequences are 

 too insignificant to warrant the necessarv time and expense, let alone 

 the skill. 



Difficulty of transit over bad roads and isolation were the chief 

 objections raised to the supply of milk to the factory. With the use 

 of the private separator the bulk has been rediiced by nine-tenths, 

 consequently this difficulty does not now exist. If dairymen would 

 not think of keeping their milk on the farm long enough to allow it 

 to depreciate in value, why then should the fact of reducing it to 

 cream be an excuse for keeping it to deteriorate ? It may be argued 

 by dairymen that the quantity produced does not warrant the time 

 its production occupies, but if dairying is made a speciality then the 

 produce requires special treatment. The farmer who does not care 

 whether his cream makes good butter or not should not be allowed to 

 become a parasite. 



Although there are individual dairymen wlio take good care of 

 their cream, unfortunately this cannot be said of the average. A 

 lower price is received for this inferior cream, and this is the penalty 

 for the carelessness of the dairymen, and, according to the present 

 system, this tax has to be borne e([ually by the Ciireful as well as the 

 careless. 



Cream Collecting by the Factoiuks. 



This has been established in some districts by a few factories, 

 and has proved a boon to the factory managers and dairymen alike. 

 If it were generally adopted immense benefit would accrue to all 

 concerned. Daily delivery of cream is practicable in most places. 

 It only requires the establishment of depots, and the sending round 

 of carts daily to pick up the cream. Difficulties, of course, would be 

 encountered^ but would disappear with experience, and the improved 



