THE PATRON AND THE CREAMERY. 3 



responsible for the final result, as he was twenty years ago. This shows 

 that the creamery proprietors and managers should make especial effort to 

 promote dairy education and knowledge of best methods, in order to counter- 

 act this tendency to lax effort. Every patron should look upon his relation 

 to the creamery in the light that he is a partner. What is needed in every 

 creamery is a strong central tone of public sentiment that shall tend to the 

 promotion of intelligence and improvement along dairy lines. 



We believe most thoroughly in the creamery, but we want it to act as a 

 stimulant to dairy improvement and progress. There are dangers, as well 

 as blessings, in its path. We have seen old dairy districts in the State of 

 New York decline in fertility of the soil, and a true spirit of progress among 

 its farmers, to the extent that farms that sold for $100 an acre, thirty years 

 ago, can be bought to-day for $25 to $30. This fearful loss came because 

 the farmers gave themselves up to indifference as to their own dairy knowl- 

 edge and improvement. A bright, intelligent set of patrons in any creamery 

 always insures honesty and good management. Such men will be satisfied 

 with nothing less. Dairy education has benefited the creamery operator 

 more than the patrons. Consequently the creamery end is kept up square 

 with the best modern judgment, to a larger degree than is the farm end. As 

 a rule, the buttermaker does his share of the work better than the milk pro- 

 ducer. This is because he has put himself in contact with the best modern 

 thought on dairy matters to a much larger degree than has the patron. It 

 is the patron who really makes the butter; the creamery only separates it, 

 and puts it on the market. Certainly there is as great need for sound 

 knowledge, intelligent, up-to-date methods and the spirit of true American 

 progress among the patrons, as with the buttermakers. 



A broader, more just view of the true relations of the patron to the 

 creamery has always resulted in greatly increasing the profits, as well as the 

 harmony and success of both patron and the creamery operator. 



" Let me be no assistant for a state, 

 But keep a farm." Shakespeare. 



