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which results in depriving the farm of the skim-milk. There 

 are some of us who believe that that system has gone by 

 years ago, and that this cream-gathering system is the most 

 successful ; that the old method of hitching up our teams 

 and delivering milk once or twice a day is entirely out of the 

 question. I do not think that many in these days would be 

 willing to go into any such arrangement. 



Mr. Hazen. In regard to that I would say that all of my 

 patrons who deliver milk have the privilege of taking the 

 skim-milk at one-fourth of a cent a pound or twenty-five 

 cents a hundred, or such a proportion of it as they want. 

 On the question whether it pays or not, I will say that we 

 have one patron who lives about two miles from me and 

 keeps twenty cows. He made a test of one week each way 

 with the Moseley, a standard creamery, and with the sepa- 

 rator process, to see whether it would pay him best to keep 

 his milk at home or bring his milk to us, and he became 

 satisfied, after one week's test each way, that it paid him 

 better to bring his milk to the factory than it did to be at 

 the expense of getting the ice and making his butter at 

 home. Then I had a breakage of my separator, and had to 

 send it away to be repaired, and during that time he made 

 another test of eight days. That was in the month of June, 

 when milk was supposed to be the richest of any part of the 

 season. He was more thoroughly convinced by that test 

 than he was before that it paid him to bring that milk every 

 morning. 



Mr. Stockbridge. I want to know Mr. Hazen's opinion 

 in relation to the policy of managing a farm in that way, by 

 carrying the milk all off". 



Mr. Hazen. I say they have the privilege of taking the 

 skim-milk back if they see fit. 



Mr. Stockbridge. I do not ask what the farmers think 

 about it. I want Mr. Hazen's opinion. 



Mr. Hazen. That method would apply just as well to 

 them as it would to the milk-seller. Where you carry the 

 milk from the farm you take ofi" from 20 to 22 per cent, of 

 the material that would otherwise go to increase the fertility 

 of your farm. Where you carry off nothing biit cream, you 

 only take about three per cent. 



