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took a little interest iu it, and we made a fair grade of creamery butter, 

 but it got worse and worse, and the result was that the butter we got 

 from the creamery was almost as bad as the country butter, and that is 

 not so good, especially made without a separator; then we were churning 

 as high as two thousand pounds a day. I think well of the co-operative 

 creaniei-y, but I think tlie farmer's place is on the farm, and the creamery 

 man, I think he is the man that ought to handle the butter. I think the 

 farmer has enough if he takes care of his work in getting the milk. In 

 about ten j-ears we had six co-operative creameries started near us. 

 Some ran a year, some a year and a half, and the result was every one 

 of them went up in smoke. They sold milk to the creamery and hired a 

 man to go and get the milk. We tried the same thing. We ran about 

 six mouths, and it cost us about $1(K> or $150 a month, and we quit it. 

 The trouble was we hired a man to haul the milk, but finally we got the 

 farmers to deliver the milk. We have a town about seven miles northwest 

 of us that was west of this station, and the farmers finally talked like 

 they would like to have a separator there, and so we put one in. I 

 jumped on every wagon that came along and would ask him if he would 

 not sell milk, and he says "no, you are thieves." We hammered away 

 until last year Ave ran up as high as 40,000 pounds. In about the same 

 territory in Iowa, Wisconsin or Minnesota, I will venture to say they 

 will have twenty times as much milk. The pictures illustrated here, of 

 that creamery at Fresno, which has an average of as much as the pro- 

 fessor just said it had. 



The reason I came here wasn't to talk; it was to learn. I am just 

 as anxious to be taught in this dairy line as any one. I have learned more 

 in the last few days, I think, about dairying than I ever learned before in 

 my life, and the doctor from Indianapolis has given me more liglit on the 

 subject of cows than I ever learned in all my life, and I think if we can 

 get the farmers to help us along, in a few years we will have as good a 

 dairy State as we have in the Union. 



