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better and more plainly show you the importance of having 

 everything just right. 



Another class have good cows, feed them well, take excel- 

 lent care of them, have perfect arrangements in the house, 

 and make a first-rate article of butter, which sells for a 

 good price. They will not perhaps get quite as much money 

 out of it at the creamery, but they will be more than paid in 

 seeing the restful look in the countenances of their wives and 

 daughters, which will ten times pay them for the small de- 

 ficiency in their receipts. One of the greatest benefits of the 

 creamery system is its influence as an educator. It intro- 

 duces nevv associations, new practices, new ideas and pro- 

 vokes new trains of thought. 



The example of the creamery with its improved methods, 

 turning out improved goods, that bring improved prices, is 

 a powerful stimulus to thought and progress. With it not 

 only come new methods, but they are fully discussed and, 

 as the different patrons meet and discuss the success of the 

 enterprise, they bring the thoughts home to themselves and 

 find that some with an equal number of cows are producing 

 much more than others. Why is that? is asked, and they 

 find such a one has improved cows that he feeds well, has 

 good warm stables, weighs the milk of each cow, keeps 

 a record of each one, and when he finds one that does not 

 pay he sells her and buys another ; therefore he concludes he 

 will get a bag of meal, a little bran, batten his barn a little 

 and see if it makes any difference. He finds the difference 

 so great that he begins to test his cows and finds that, while 

 he has some good ones, he has others that are almost worth- 

 less. The result is a continued improvement in his stock, 

 and the improvement does not stop here. He improves his 

 barns and sees the benefits in increased receipts. He begins 

 to look over his fiirm to see where he can increase his prod- 

 ucts so as to enable him to keep more stock. You will soon 

 see an improvement in his whole place, and a general degree 

 of thrift is manifest in his whole surroundings. The cream- 

 ery thus becomes a stepping-stone in the path of progress, 

 leading to a higher condition both agriculturally and socially. 

 It is a good missionary station introduced into any neighbor- 

 hood where there are cows enousfh to sustain it. Show me 



