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consider a man who can not tell by the hum of the bowl when it is 

 running fast enough safe to leave in charge of a creamery to do 

 such work. Of course there are exceptions, but the one who 

 runs a creamery should be able to tell how his machine is 

 running as far as he can hear the sound of it. If his machine 

 is not running up to speed cream and skim milk are going where 

 they should not. 



Fourth, The sense of touch. I go a great deal in telling 

 when my butter is worked enough by the feel of it. 



Fifth, The sense of tasting. I am afraid this one sense 

 is not used enough in our creameries. This tells us when our 

 cream is ready for churning, and when our butter has that quick 

 nutty flavor that butter should have. If the butter maker has 

 not got a good keen taster how can he tell when his butter is 

 all right.'* The butter may look all right in every way, but yet 

 lack one of the most essential things that our trade wants and 

 that is flavor. 



And this is not all by any means what the butter maker 

 should be. He should be a fireman so as to be able to take care 

 of his engine. He should be a steam pipe fitter, a man of good 

 sound judgment, a man quick to think and quick to act in case 

 of an emergency. He should be tidy, have a place for every 

 thing and every thing in its place. Oil, for instance, should be 

 in its proper place and not on the floor where it is often seen. 

 The butter maker needs to be a good judge of human nature. 

 We have all kinds of people to deal with. Some patrons are 

 very cleanly, while I am sorry to say others, and there are a 

 great many, are not. Now these dirty milk cans must be kept 

 clean and the man who owns them must clean and keep them 

 so. Some people you only need to ask. to do so and it is done. 

 Others you have to treat differently and you should know how 

 to get at them. 



I had to tell a customer once that if he ever sent his milk 

 in cans in such shape again, the milk would be sent back home. 

 The next day the cans came back nice and clean and have been 

 kept so ever since and he never showed any signs of hard feel- 



