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making of oleomargarine yellow, AS A COUNTERFEIT OF PURE BUTTER, shall 

 be stopped. 



What is the farmer's part in the sale of good butter? 



His part is to use his vote and personal influence in the legislation 

 of this country as to forever make impossible the counterfeiting of pure 

 butter made from pure milk either on the farm or in the creamery. 



Products made in a manner that will proclaim their identity everywhere 

 are legitimate articles of commerce, but products that are made to COUN- 

 TERFEIT others have no right to exist, and oleomargarine colored a butter 

 yellow is such a product. It is a counterfeit just as much as money not 

 made in a government mint is counterfeit, and farmers have the right 'to 

 demand its proper suppression leaving the way open for it to be made 

 a product distinctive in itself so all may easily know which they are offered 

 oleomargarine or pure butter either at the store or wherever a meal 

 may be served. 



The farmer, whether private dairyman or creamery patron, thus is 

 the central figure in the production of good butter, and his influence ex- 

 tends through to its final sale. He is but one of the many engaged in the 

 work of making and selling butter, but his influence, his work, his per- 

 sonality, dominates all, and the work is not well done or complete with- 

 out his best efforts have helped to make it so. 



It is not an easy task this thing of dairying. It is not an easy thing 

 to handle a herd of cows to get the right amount of milk from each, and it 

 is not an easy thing to care for this milk as it should be cared for as 

 it must be cared for if good butter is to be made. But the farmer-dairy- 

 man has not all the hard work to do, as the writer has fully realized by 

 actual work on the farm, by work as a buttermaker in the creamery, 

 and by active association with the commission dealer and the butter re- 

 tailer. 



Each in his occupation must use brains, employ well his time, direct 

 his business intelligently, an.d work with energy and persistence if he shall 

 gain success. 



If the farmer shall do this same way, who is there to say that his will 

 not be the greater share in so much of that material wealth, peace, pros- 

 perity, and that homely happiness in life and contentment in occupation 

 as those may expect who are earnestly associated in the making and market- 

 ing of GOOD BUTTER? 



MILK. 



What a wonderful thing is milk! Born of the mother-love, it nour- 

 ishes the young of all warm blooded creatures whose term of life would 

 quickly end were it wanting. From the lowliest mammal to noble man, 

 made in Godlike image, milk is the flesh builder, the nervepower, the very 

 essence of life. It is the one product all indispensable, universal. The 

 cow, man's queenly servant, sacred in history, ever needful, deserving of 



