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James Chees3IAN, Secretary of the New England Creamery 

 Association, and we shall be pleased to hear a few words 

 from him at this time. 



Mr. James Cpieesman. Mr. Chairman and ladies and 

 gentlemen, I esteem it an honor to be invited to address you 

 to-day, because the audience contains many men who are 

 much older than myself, — men who have grown gray in 

 the business of dairying ; and I feel keenly the responsi- 

 bility that devolves upon me in addressing you who have had 

 so much longer experience than I, although my experience 

 has been derived from a pretty wide area. AVhat I have to 

 say in the few moments allotted me will be to notice some 

 points brought out in the practical address from my friend 

 behind me, evidencing in a very marked manner the value of 

 co-operation, which was so very thoroughly indorsed by the 

 speaker who followed him. At the present day I think we 

 must all be convinced that, without some form of co-opera- 

 tion, it will be utterly impossible for us to hold our own 

 against the gigantic corporations that are growing up. 

 With co-operation it will be quite possible to do it, and we 

 shall derive profit in doing it. I was very much pleased 

 and instructed by the reference to the co-operative purchase 

 of food supplies. Some fifteen years ago, my first experi- 

 ence in agricultural pursuits was entirely in that direction. 

 In England the members of the Agricultural Society had 

 suffered so severely for a number of years from the adulter- 

 ation of seeds, food supplies and fertilizers, that it became a 

 matter of self-defence for then) to undertake to supply these 

 articles on a co-operative basis. The objcc^t was not so 

 much to divide the profits among themselves, although that 

 received serious consideration, as to secure a supply of 

 pure foods, fertilizers, and seeds of guaranteed power 

 of germination. I want to ask INIr. Clark what kinds of 

 foods they l)uy, and whether they have undertaken the 

 preparation of compound feeding-stufis at the creamery 

 that would stand up to the formula they prefer for the 

 production of the best quality of cream in the manufac- 

 ture of their butter. 



Mr. Clark. I will state that our purchases have been 

 confined mainly to wheat-bran and oats. We can usually 



