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tainly feel very much honored in being called upon to say 

 a few words, for I well know the liberal policy which has 

 been manifested in your State with regard to agricultural 

 appropriations, and I also well know the interest which the 

 farmers have taken in the discussion of this subject. While 

 I feel a sense of honor, I certainly feel it would be more 

 fortunate for you and for myself, and for your secretary, to 

 let me sit quietly by and listen to the discussion. You all 

 know that I come from a State of rugged soil, in which we 

 have our proportion of rock and thin soil ; but I am pleased 

 to say that the State of New Hampshire, in the year 1887, 

 increased her number of horses, increased her number of 

 cattle, increased her number of sheep and number of swine, 

 an aggregate value of half a million dollars. I cannot, of 

 course, give you the specific reason for this, but we think 

 there are three reasons which have largely contributed to this 

 result. First, the establishment of creameries in our State 

 has been a powerful incentive to the farmers to keep better 

 stock. The grange, which is doing a powerful work 

 there, has increased the work in various directions among 

 farmers. The subject of ensilage, which we hear of so often in 

 our agricultural meetings, has led our farmers to keep more 

 stock, and to keep them in a better manner. We have to- 

 day twenty co-operative creameries, that manufactured dur- 

 ing the year 1887 a little over six hundred thousand pounds 

 of butter, that returned to the farmers of that State a net 

 price of twenty-two and one-half cents per pound for the 

 milk or cream furnished to make a pound of butter. This 

 is the average price returned from the creameries of the 

 State. Of course there are exceptions to this price. One 

 creamery, for instance, returned only sixteen and two-thirds 

 cents, while another creamery returned over twenty-seven 

 cents. 



Question. Did the one returning sixteen and two-thirds 

 cents run all the year round ? 



Mr. Bachelder. Yes, sir. I presume the reason for 

 the small price which they were able to return was the fact 

 that they did very little business. I think they worked up 

 the product of something like one hundred and sixty cows. 

 This gave a very small product in proportion to the invest- 



