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forbear saying somethiug in this report. It is being shown in the 

 vicinity of creameries that there is a call for more cows. A " mid- 

 dlemen," whose business has been to buy cows every year in the 

 vicinity of one of the public creameries, remarked that " the cream- 

 ery had spoiled his business in that locality as there were no more 

 cows for sale ; farmers preferred to keep them and buy others, or 

 raise them to produce cream for the creamery." We see here a two- 

 fold advantage to the stock raiser — a profit gained by stock produc- 

 tion, and an enhanced value of the farm in consequence of the 

 inducement to raise and feed more material to the increasing number 

 of stock kept, and, by so doing, increase the manure pile. 



We can but believe that this will follow the establishment of public 

 creameries in our grazing towns ; that more attention will be given 

 to raising milch cows for home use and for market. We often hear 

 it said by croakers that the great increase of the number of butter- 

 workers will soon break down the business, which we are not inclined 

 to believe at all. We know that at present all of our creameries 

 have orders for butter which they are unable to fill. We believe that 

 the demand for good butter will increase with the supply. The de- 

 mand for milk is also continually increasing. Our large eities are 

 every year sending farther into the country for milk. The building 

 up of the manufacturing towns about us gives increasing demand for 

 our dairy products, which, together with the exportation of our 

 goods, gives great encouragement to all who are in circumstances 

 to be able to raise or handle neat stock. 



John M. Smith, Chairman. 



Sunderland, Nov. 1, 1887. 



