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all. Having had some experience, perhaps I will say something in that 

 line. In starting our creamery and taking milk from other people we 

 commenced in a very small way and not getting very much yet, 3,00<) r 

 4,000 or 5,000 pounds a day. When running a farm and milking forty or 

 fifty cows we did not see any way of Sunday morning except to do the 

 chores. We cut everything down to a minimum. We got everything 

 ready as far as possible the day before. We commenced buying the milk.. 

 or taking in milk, and then came this question, Shall we run the milk 

 through Sunday morning or not? We finally rented the farm to other parties 

 and got relieved of that part of the work and there the question was. 

 Now it is: ''Can we run the creamery and save the other people a good 

 deal of work at home and at the same time not do any more work than 

 when on the farm." We concluded that we would run the separator Sun- 

 day morning and take care of things as little as possible, and so we have 

 been doing that way. This running nights I don't like, but did not know 

 any one else had done it. In our own case we all dislike this night work. 

 We universally keep Saturday in place of Sunday. We do that because we 

 believe that the seventh day is the Sabbath, and we find very little authority 

 to contradict that. W T e are Seventh Day Baptists. By starting Satur- 

 day night again — we end Saturday at sundown, believing that the evening 

 and morning were the first day. We can start our machinery at sundown 

 Saturday night and we can run that milk through and have it all out of 

 the way, and then Sunday can dc our churning. I believe I have goc 

 paid for coming to this convention tor this one idea if nothing else. 

 Convention adjourned until 1:30 p. v\ 



