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to the pound of butter, worked, and put in 

 sixty-pound tubs, and is then ready for 

 market. John Metzer, Kansas. 



Mr. Metzer starts with his proposition 

 just where it must always start if fine but- 

 ter is made. "I .use good milk only.'' 

 There is also great significance in the clos- 

 ing part of that sentence. Every patron 

 of a creamery should read it over and think 

 on it long. Here it is: ''And I have a 

 rather hard time getting it." That is the 

 universal cry among creamery men and 

 cheese makers everywhere. In Canada 

 and Wisconsin and in New York it is just 

 the same. Everywhere they say: 



"The farmers are not particular enough 

 to send us good milk. They don't seem to 

 understand the value of good milk in mak- 

 ing high-priced butter and cheese. They 

 don't seem to realize the importance of 

 clean cows, clean stables and clean milk 

 cans. They demand that we shall make 

 first-class butter and cheese out of milk 

 that is made foul by the filthy habits of 

 certain of the patrons. And there we 

 stand. We simply cannot make such 



goods unless we have clean milk. If we 

 ask the patrons to unite for the sake of 

 their own profit, and force the dirty ones 

 to reform their course or leave, they will 

 not do it. They seem to act as if they 

 had rather lose a good bit of money every 

 year than to offend some of these dirty fel- 

 lows who are lowering the value of the 

 general product all the time." 



The above is the burden of complaint 

 that we have heard from thousands of but- 

 ter and cheese makers for years, and it is 

 still being uttered. The Wisconsin Dairy 

 School is one of several in the nation that 

 is turning out hundreds of bright, neat and 

 capable young butter and cheese makers. 

 But what can they do with dirty milk? 

 What can they do with a patron who is 

 naturally nasty in his habits and prac- 

 tices? The fact is, the patrons of every 

 cheese factory and every creamery ought 

 to form a solid body of sentiment and re- 

 sistance against the dirty members of their 

 own flock. It is these men who keep 

 down the prices of butter and cheese. 

 Hoard's Dairyman. 



