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PAPER NO. 1, 



PAPER ON THE OKIGINAL IDEAS IN 

 DAIRYING. 

 Mr. President : 



I am a man of a few words and ain't much on writ- 

 ing, but, seeing } 7 ou had given a chance for them who 

 keep cows and make butter in the original way, I 

 thought I would write a few lines on the subject to 

 let you know how I feel about it. I don't want to get 

 that 10 bottle fixing your little book tells about for a 

 prize, for I wouldn't know what to do with it, anyhow, 

 and if I should take it home my folks would think 

 someone had been swindling me; but I do want to see 

 how the stenographer works up a paper. I always had 

 an idea that there was a machine of some sort or other 

 that worked up the notions that we see printed in the 

 farmers' papers. Now it seems to me the original way 

 of setting milk in crocks and pans till the cream comes 

 up of its own accord is the only natural way of doing 

 and is a great deal cheaper and better than buying all 

 these new-fangled things that cost such a heap of money 

 and a great deal easier on the horses and men folks 

 than hauling the milk away off to some factory and pay- 

 ing some feller to take the cream out with one of those 

 whirling separator machines, and the farmer only get 

 back the skim-milk for his trouble, and the skim-milk 

 when the farmer does get it back is so thin it won't 

 raise a calf without buying feed stuffs — that cost the 

 farmer more than the calf will fetch when the calf is 

 raised. Now, Mr. President, I know the ruination of 

 the farmers of this country is because the farmers 

 keep themselves poor trying to buy all them new ma- 



