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rules on the Elgin Board of Trade as to what constituted ' * Fine 

 Elgin Butter," and the rule stands to-day as follows: 



CLASSIFICATION OF BUTTER. 



All butter offered upon this Board shall be assumed to be 

 butter churned, salted and packed in a creamery, from cream 

 which is separated from the milk in the creamery where the 

 butter is made, unless otherwise designated. 



Extra — Flavor must be quick, full, fine and fresh; taste must 

 be pleasant and sweet; brine perfectly clear and little of it; body 

 and grain must be perfect; color even and uniform, and good for 

 the market for which the butter is intended. Properly salted, 

 neither gritty nor flat. Package, good and uniform, and not 

 less than five hoops for a sixty-pound tub. 



TARES. 



Section i : In the sale of any property in packages, involving 

 the question of tare, the actual weight of packages (ascertained 

 by stripping at the time of delivery) shall be deducted from the 

 gross weight. In case the purchaser shall require the weighing 

 and stripping of butter that has been delivered on marked weight, 

 such weighing and stripping shall be done, and the result report- 

 ed, within three (3) business days (including the day of delivery) 

 after delivery, or the purchaser shall have no right of reclama- 

 tion on the seller. 



By the adoption of this rule we keep our Elgin Butter the 

 highest grade, and living up to it is to my mind the key-stone 

 which binds the dairymen together, so that Elgin retains ''its 

 supremacy in the butter market," and to keep their butter up to 

 grade is what the creamerymen of the Elgin district work for 

 continually, using the newest machinery that will assist them in 

 that direction, and by knowledge gained by long experience, com- 

 bined with pure milk to commence with, they are enabled to 

 lead the forces of the dairymen, ever taking as a watchword 

 * 'Excelsior. " 



To sum up in a few words: If I should build an arch on 

 which was inscribed "The reasons for Elgin's Supremacy in the 



