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same class. A well managed creamery brings the same kind of 

 satisfaction to the one thousand or more people interested in it as 

 is felt by the one thousand passengers. 



626. Butter of Uniform Quality. The creamery produces 

 a much more uniform article of butter than can possibly be made 

 at the different farms. In the matter of color and salt in butter, 

 to say nothing of the variety of flavors obtained in the farm 

 butter, the creamery product has a great advantage. The quality 

 of creamery butter is also, as a rule, far superior to that of farm 

 butter, the market quotation always placing extra creamery but- 

 ter at the top of the list. The milk therefore which was formerly 

 used in making the dairy butter may thus be converted into a 

 higher-priced article at the creamery than at the farm. The 

 creamery will also market more butter from the same amount 

 of milk than it is possible for a number of farm dairies to make. 

 The churning will be more exhaustive and the general waste 

 will be less. 



627. Economy of Time in Marketing the Butter. The time 

 spent in delivering farm butter to private customers and the 

 annoyance of collecting and of waiting for them to pay bufcfcer 

 bills is entirely avoided by patronizing a creamery. Much less 

 machinery and supplies are also needed at the farm when milk 

 is sent to a creamery than when it is made into butter at home. 



628. More Cows on Each Farm. A large number of cows 

 may be kept on the farm when they have to be fed and milked 

 only and the farmer's time is not occupied with butter making. 

 This will enable him to concentrate his thoughts on the produc- 

 tion of milk, and he will find that the reducing of its cost to the 

 lowest terms will be a most profitable study for him. 



629. The Farm Women Relieved From Some Extra Work. 

 The benefits of a creamerv to farmers would not be completely 

 enumerated if we failed to mention the relief it brings to the 

 farm women. They have many duties about the home each day, 

 and although there are excellent butter makers among them, 

 churning is extra work, and in some cases a heavy tax upon a 

 woman's strength. All good American farmers are glad to 



