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man. There is a general impression that if a person 

 is neat and clean in the making of butter that it will 

 be good. Cleanliness is absolutely necessary in mak- 

 ing healthful butter, but there are many other things 

 just as important and must be connected with it to 

 have a superior or even a fair article. A tingle cow's 

 hair found in your butter as you are eating may not 

 mean that there is. an atom there that is dirty or 

 unhealthful, but as it adds nothing to the appearance 

 or flavor it is better kept out, as the suspicious natur- 

 ally wonder where the rest of the cow is. 



Farmers are naturally very hard to induce to take 

 an interest in things that are for the general good in 

 educational matters when it requires co-operation. I 

 do not think it is because they feel a less interest in 

 such matters, but because it is more difficult to reach 

 them. It is the little things in dairying that make it a 

 success or not financially. A thermometer costing 25 

 cents is a very small item. How many butter makers 

 on the farm have them? I will venture to say not one 

 in a hundred. I have no doubt that the fact of not 

 having this little inexpensive thing and the knowledge 

 how to use it is costing this state half a million dollars 

 a year. If we had the superstitions of a lew genera- 

 tions ago and some enterprising yankee should come to 

 us with one and tell us it was a charm and if we put it in 

 the cream and warmed it until the mercury reached a 

 certain point that all witches would disappear, and the 

 butter would come within a specified time, we would 

 buy them at $5.00 or $10.00 and consider them cheap. 

 Every person that has made butter knows that temper- 

 ature is very important but they do not realize its 

 importance in dollars and cents. 



The mass of our butter makers need to have these 



