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believe that it is best for every milk seller to work up his 

 surplus milk on his farm. I suifered myself to be kept for 

 many years under the iron heel of the Boston contractors, 

 but finally I made up my mind to be independent, so far as 

 the production of milk was concerned. You can, any of 

 you, if you have the Cooley system of raising cream, pur- 

 chase a butter-worker, a swing churn and all the apparatus 

 for making butter on your own farm, for a sum not exceeding 

 $60 or $70, and then when the Boston contractors or the 

 New York contractors say to you that they will not take 

 your milk, you will have a system on your own farm by 

 which you can manufacture your own butter. I believe we 

 cannot afford to have our milk taken from our doors, much 

 more harness our teams and carry it to a butter factory, even 

 at one cent a quart more than our friend is paying. Any 

 farmer can put milk into the Cooley creamery any day he 

 pleases ; he can churn the cream with his churn and work it 

 with his butter-worker ; he can keep a detailed and accurate 

 account of every hour's labor, and when he gets through he 

 will know something about what his milk is worth to work 

 up at home and whether he can afford to sell it to a Boston 

 or New York contractor or not. He can make some simple 

 experiments with his skim-milk that will satisfy him whether 

 it is worth half a cent a quart, or one cent or two cents. 

 The point I want to make is, if you are keeping anywhere 

 from ten to twenty cows, if you cannot get capital in any 

 way to buy this system, sell one or two of those cows and 

 invest the money in apparatus for butter-making, and you do 

 not know how much better you will feel, knowing that you 

 can control your own business and are not in the iron grip 

 of any man. 



Mr. FiTcn. I want to say Amen ! 



Mr. Williams. I would like to ask the gentleman last 

 up, one question. He says we want to be thinking men. 

 He seems to be a man who has experimented with the Cooley 

 creamery. I want to ask him how many spaces of cream it 

 takes to make a pound of butter ? 



Mr. CusHMAN. I was fortunate enough to find a market 

 for my cream in the city of Boston. I have made very little 

 butter for the last three years. But I will say that I have 



