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tubs, get the best. If in small boxes, have the different 

 styles so that you can give each customer what he wants. 

 I find that some want the square five and ten pound boxes, 

 while others won't have them, l)ut want the round. Then 

 have good stjde of print and good packing-boxes to send 

 your prints in and you are ready to send at any time just 

 what is ordered. I find that at different seasons of the year 

 it is wanted in different styles. Now select a good reliable 

 commission house and send it to them every week, or twice a 

 week, and let them work up a trade and I think you will be 

 as well off" in the end as in any other way. Another plan 

 has been talked of by creamery men, and that is to form an 

 association of creameries, rent a store in the city and put 

 competent men into it, and let the association of creameries 

 send their butter there. I am not prepared to decide to my 

 own satisfaction as to the advisability of this plan, but am ot 

 the opinion that, properly managed, it could be made to pay. 

 There are objections to the plan, the greatest of which I 

 think is, we should have the coml^ined forces of the commis- 

 sion houses to fight. But with proper care in putting our 

 butter up, with salesmen that are honest, and that would take 

 pains to court good trade, I think this objection could be 

 overcome and in time a good business could be worked up 

 and good prices obtained. 



Mr. Fitch. Is not the difference between cream-collect- 

 ing and milk-collecting the question of the purchase by the 

 farmer of a creamery and the other things necessary ? He 

 can ship his milk immediately in the one case, in the other 

 he has the trouble of collecting the cream. 



Question. I would like to ask if it is anything more 

 than theory that the milk-gathering system produces better 

 butter than the cream-gathering system ? 



Mr. IIazex. It is the actual fact in my own experience. 



Question. May I ask what it is based upon ? 



Mr. Hazen. It is based upon fact. As I stated, there 

 is greater care exercised over the product from milk or 

 cream in a creamery than can be exercised in the very best 

 farm-house. 



Question. What is the test of good butter? 



Mr. Hazen. The mouth and the sense of smell. 



