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and some liquid with it to tell how much the milk is worth. 



" The purpose of this is to give the men the money that 

 they ought to get. The men that have poor milk don't get 

 much as the men that have rich milk. 



" They take the skimmed milk off and give it to the calves. 

 When the calves have too much the men give it to the pigs. 



" They put the cream on trains and send it to Stockton. 

 When it arrives the wholesale milk wagon comes and gets it 

 and takes it to the creamery. The cream is carried about 

 forty miles to Stockton. 



" The churn is wooden outside and tin inside. It is shaped 

 like a cylinder. When the dasher is running the rollers 

 aren't, and when the rollers are running the dasher isn't. It 

 is large enough to hold fifteen hundred pounds of butter at 

 once. It runs by steam power. It takes one and a half 

 hours to make the butter. They have a man from the 

 country come and get the buttermilk for his pigs. 



" They wash and wash the butter in the churn. They put 

 water in the churn and run it through the butter. After the 

 butter is washed they let the water out. The rollers keep 

 turning the salt into the butter while they go around. Then 

 they take it out of the churn and put it in a kind of trough. 

 They have four wires on and they push a stick fastened to 

 the wires and cut the butter in cube shape. There are two 

 pounds in each package. Then they take it out of the trough 

 with a kind of paddle. After it is hard they wrap it up in 

 paper which has their name on, 'The San Joaquin Cream- 

 ery/ They sell the butter to the grocers and dealers. 

 When they send it to them they put it in boxes. They sell it 

 to the skimming stations patrons, too. When the man at 



