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and afternoon' on the subject of hew to make milk; the kinds of herds to 

 use; the kind of feed, etc., etc., you will get part of my idea as to the 

 starting point of making creameries pay. 



Then again, we must have the creameries rightly located. A great 

 many parts of the United States, where creameries have been located, have 

 been done so by what is termed "Creamery Sharks." They go through a 

 country, sending out their advance agents, somewhat as a circus does; 

 they go out and talk up with a few of the prominent men in a section, and 

 although there may not be ten cows in the vicinity, they will locate a 

 Five Thousand Dollar creamery, when Twenty F've Hundred Dollars at 

 the most would have been enough. 



From what I know of Knox county today and what I have known of 

 it for the past ten years, I would not dare come to Knox county and expect 

 to make it pay. I don't think there is enough milk here to make it pay, 

 and that can be said of a great many points in the United States. Our 

 experience has been to locate creameries in districts where they already 

 have the cows; letting some one else do the missionary work. 



After they have the creamery, then the milk business must prove a 

 profitable industry to the farmers. We are all struggling on this sphere 

 for the profit, and to put up something for a rainy day. It is not all the 

 present we are looking after, we are all arriving at the age when we 

 think of these things, and we should not leave to the children, therefore 

 the milk business must be profitable to continue in the work. For the 

 farm to be profiatble, it must be rightly located. He must have the 

 proper cows, and saving the calves from such herds and taking the milk to 

 the factory that is well located, and to parties that are responsible, where 

 you feel you will get your pay evcryfifteen days, or thirty days, as agreed 

 upon, should be a profitable business for the farmer. 



I believe that to make creameries pay in the north, milk must be 

 made cheaper than it has been made for the past ten years, and that is 

 where the feed question comes in. We may make milk cheaper by study- 

 ing out kinds of fed. I put a good deal of faith on ration, I don't care wheth- 

 er for a calf or a sheep, and I am beginning to think we don't half study it 

 as human beings. 



After the farmer has got the milk, he must take care of it as you have 

 heard these professors tell you, and bring it in proper shape to the cream- 



