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the uniform good quality that brings the uniform high price. 

 There is a growing fastidiousness among butter eaters. This 

 fact gives urgent and paramount importance to efforts for 

 improvement, which are more possible in creamery than in 

 dairy practice. Creamer}^ butter is unquestionably a suc- 

 cess ; if not, whence comes this volume of fine, sweet goods, 

 such as tempts the most dainty critic, and gains the praises 

 of the best experts in the land of choice butter? 



To make good, aromatic butter, we must do it with the 

 most improved methods. There is more of an improvement 

 in the flavor or aroma, as we call it, in butter made at a 

 creamery than in a dairy, because the ripening process can 

 be managed with greater skill, and the science of using the 

 bacteria can be better practised. 



The co-operative creamery has elevated the dairy business ; 

 it has introduced ncAv and better methods. It is perpetual ; 

 its reputation does not die ; nor is its business interrupted 

 when a i)atron drops out. Organization is of great advantage 

 to the dairy indilstry. " In union there is strength," as we 

 have found in the co-operation of co-operative creameries. 

 The NcAv York ' ' Sun " lately said : ' ' Creameries scattered 

 over many parts of our country are making considerable 

 change in the condition of farming." So, in our State, 

 especially the western part, the dairy interest is becoming 

 more and more im})ortant, and poor farms are enriched by 

 the presence of many cattle. I have seen nothing that 

 denotes so nmch thrift as is shown on a great many of our 

 little farms that have their cream taken at the door, to be 

 made into butter. 



In the commercial Avorld there may be what is termed an 

 over-production of bread and meat and raiment, but there is 

 no danger of an over-production of good butter. Cotton 

 and corn may vie with each other to see which shall be king, 

 but good butter stands alone as queen. To make this noble 

 queen more and more the queen, and to crown her with 

 fadeless glories, is the mission of the co-operative cream- 

 eries. 



As has been said, there is no branch of agriculture in the 

 United States that has made greater progress than dairying 



