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Mr. Salisbury: I could not answer that question. I don't know that I 

 figured it up. I heard one of my neighbors, and, of course, his butter 

 would average with the rest, say it averaged him net 17 cents. 



Mr. Schlosser: Have 5^ou ever tried to get the farmers to club together 

 and bring their milk in? 



Mr. Salisbuiy: I have tried to work that up in various localities, but 

 I never could get them to try it. 



Mr. Schlosser: What was their excuse for it? 



Mr. Salisbury: The general excuse was that they did not have time; 

 they would rather drop the cow business than take the time to go to the 

 creamery. 



Mr. Schlosser: How much do you figure the cost of getting the milk to 

 the factory? 



Mr. Salisbury: It costs us just a little better than 15 cents a hundred 

 pounds. 



Mr. Schlosser: That would be about 1 cents a pound for the butter fat? 



Mr. Salisbury: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Schlosser: It would seem to me that you could well afford to club 

 with your neighbors and go to your creamery once a Aveek and deliver your 

 own milk and liave the Itonefit of this 4 cents a poimd. 



Mr. Salisbury: Well, the opinion of oiu- bi);ird of directors was that tlie 

 people liaveu't got money enough tied up in cows yet so that they would 

 <lo that. A man with five or six cows, of course, can not leave his farm 

 work and go to the creamery with his milk. If they would do it, they 

 would increase their cows until they had milk enough. Do any of you 

 ever have an overrun or overplus? 



Mr. LaFuze: Sometimes we do. 



Mr. Salisbury: Well, in our settlement sheets, we test each man's milk 

 and in footing up tlie books at the end of the month, we find we have got 

 eight to twelve hundred pounds more than our test indicates. 



Mr. Gurler: I would like to ask Mr. Salisbury a question: You are 

 located some distance from a railroad? 



Mr. Salisbury: Yes, sir. 



