310 BOAED OF AGRICULTURE. 



Question. Do you consider butter-milk of much value 

 as a food for calves or pigs ? 



Mr. Hazen. It helps to fill up the pigs. I have not tried 

 it on calves. 



Question. What separator do you use ? 



Mr. Hazen. The Da vol. 



Question. I would like to ask whether it is as advan- 

 tageous to the patrons to be paid by the pound for their milk 

 as it would be to be paid for their cream under the Cooley 

 cream-gathering system? We have dairies in our town 

 which will vary from five to ten per cent, in the amount of 

 cream from a given quantity of milk. I should hate to put 

 my milk into a separator creamery where I was to be paid 

 for it by the pound. 



Mr. Hazen. I would state in answer to that, that I am 

 doing the creamery business simply for the accommodation 

 of my neighbors, (Laughter.) I told my neighbors last 

 year if they would build a co-operative creamery in the part 

 of the town where most of them lived I would give them the 

 benefit of whatever knowledge I have of the business and 

 give them $200 out of my own pocket rather than take their 

 cream or milk. I should run my creamery for my own herd 

 to the best of my capacity. I do not ask any man to bring 

 his milk in and sell it by the hundred pounds. You cannot 

 make the milk of all farmers equal, but there is a test churn 

 manufactured whereby the milk can be churned and each 

 patron day by day given the exact percentage of butter 

 realized from the amount of milk delivered by him, so that, 

 with the assistance of this test churn, you can judge very 

 nearly whether or not you are getting your exact dues. 



Mr. CusHMAN. We have heard from the manufacturers' 

 side of this milk question, but the question which interests a 

 large proportion of the milk producers before me is, how 

 they are to get out from under the control of the milk con- 

 tractors of whom we have heard this morning. We have 

 heard how little we can make when selling our milk at three 

 cents a quart, w^hile our brothers in New York and else- 

 where are selling their milk at two cents a quart during the 

 year. Nevertheless, many of us have been engaged for a 

 score of years in furnishing milk to the Boston market. I 



