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PREFACE. 



This book is dedicated to those interested in 

 the dairy and creamery business in America. 



The work is undertaken at the urgent re- 

 quest of men with whom I have worked in 

 this great field. I shall undertake to weave 

 into its pages all my experience that I think 

 will be of value to the readers of my book. 

 My mistakes will be put to the front when I 

 think they will be of value in preventing some 

 brother dairyman or creamery man from mak- 

 ing similar mistakes. 



I expect to use much information secured 

 from the work of our experiment stations and 

 other reliable sources. A. H. Barber, Chicago; 

 the Cornish, Curtis & Greene Co., Fort Atkin- 

 son, Wis.; the Creamery Package Co., Chicago; 

 the Vermont Farm Machine Co., Bellows Falls, 

 Vt.; P. M. Sharpless, Elgin, 111., and Mr. Decker, 

 Fond du Lac ; Wis., have offered to loan me 

 cuts to illustrate the work. Mr. E. H. Far- 

 rington, the World's Fair Chemist, has prom- 



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