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the difference in the interest on a solid brick building costing double 

 the money. 



I shall riot challenge this, I say, though there may be localities 

 where the difference would not be great enough to do it, and though 

 certainly fire insurance ought to be lower in the latter case. 



But I am not only asking for a brick building, I want it finished 

 somewhat in the style of the illustration. / wont a $10,000 building 

 inhere there is now a $3,000 one. 



The interest account will thus be charged with say 6% on $7.000 

 extra or $420. But this will hardly be J cent per Ib. of butter. 



Leaving out the saving labor in keeping such a creamery clean, 

 I claim that the simple moral effect on the men working in such a 

 creamery will easily increase the value of the butter ^ cent per pound. 

 Nor is the claim "theory" but it is based on 20 years close observation 

 of the practical creamery work in many countries. 



I said that my proposition would be impractical for " individual " 



creameries, as they are often called, but there is no reason on earth 

 why the farmer should not build such creameries, or the banks lend 

 money in them. 



Take any community which has been blessed with the revelation 

 of dairy truth, take any bank that has seen mortgages removed and 

 good accounts opened by the aid of the cow and co-operation, arid 

 build such a creamery. Then tell me if it is not sure to make land 

 more valuable in the neighborhood, just as does a good school, or a 

 good county builing, or a good road. 



Surely there is no use arguing this point with practical men in 

 this year of 1895. Let us have better buildings by all means. 



THE MILK AND CREAM VATS. 



Dairy Couiicellor Boggild (Denmark) has demonstrated that 

 rusty milk cans may affect the milk left over in them during the night 

 and give it a nasty, tallowy taste. 



A Swedish buttermaker also proved that a peculiar " fishy " taste 

 in the butter may be traced to the ripening of the cream in rusty tin 

 vats. These are facts which are well worth remembering. 



There need not be any trouble if the cans are made of the very 

 best tin and condemned when too rusty. 



But I have seen some tin plates, said to have been made in 

 America, which I should be ashamed to use for either purpose. 



