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trol the miJk. It has been said — I do not know whether it 

 is true or not, but I am inclined to think it is — that within 

 the last few weeks a combination has been made by parties 

 who would naturall}^ run over the Central road, by which the 

 parties who have run for the last ten years over the Boston 

 & Albany are going to combine with them and run over the 

 Central, so that in that case the farmers will be left really 

 bound hand and foot. If these two firms combine, we are to 

 be no better off. We hope that will not be the case. 



I have outlined very briefly our general situation, and if 

 you, sir, from your "very wide experience, can give us any 

 suggestions for our future action, we shall be indebted to 

 you. We arc all laboring men here, sir ; genuine " Knights 

 of Labor;" w^e all milk our own cows and work our own 

 farms, and we feel at the present time, as we never have 

 before, the necessity of adopting in the immediate future 

 some positive course of action. 



Mv. Ware. I think the question that Mr. Grinnell asked 

 here is a very important and vital question. It is one that I 

 have asked a good many times of farmers who were dispos- 

 ing of their cream to" creameries, and of the oflBcers of the 

 creameries themselves ; that is, how much the farmers got 

 for their milk ? I never got an answer. I felt quite desir- 

 ous to obtain that information, and as usual, when I am puz- 

 zled on any agricultural question, I sent to Dr. Goessmann^ 

 the Director of the Experiment Station. They have two 

 cows there that they have been experimenting on for the last 

 year, and I knew that they kept exact records. He replied 

 to my question by giving me the record of those two cows, 

 which I will say are ordinary cows, such as would generally 

 be bought by a farmer, without any special purity of breed. 

 They are grade cows, bought when they were new milch. 

 He gave me a statement of just how much money they had 

 received during five months for the cream, how much milk 

 they had given, and the value (as they could tell as no farmer 

 can tell) of the skim milk for feeding purposes to pigs. 

 They have an exact record of that, as near as can possibly 

 be obtained, and also of the buttermilk. I have not the 

 figures with me, and cannot give you the fractions, but I can 

 approximate very nearly the amount. Summing up the 



