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therefore it is often sent out in irregular shaped rolls wearing 

 the country butter dress, and the people, (and there are thousands) 

 who never know what good butter is, buy it for butter. People 

 that have ever eaten real good butter for any length of time will 

 not use a counterfeit unless extremely poor, or too averitious to 

 pay for the genuine. 



And now we have the Process butter, said to be made from 

 poor country butter by some secret process, with a chemist, I 

 suppose, as its originator. 



Well, what next. Perhaps a little confession on the part of 

 the writer of the foregoing is now in order. So I will tell you (of 

 course you can all keep a secret). During the past few weeks 

 he had thought of several good things in favor of the advantages 

 of dairying, and had made a minute of them as he thought, in 

 pretty fair shape, but as good, or bad, luck would have it, one 

 day it stepped out; perhaps through the waste basket, and the 

 confession is due this audience for the hasty manner in which 

 he has been compelled to write what is now left for your con- 

 sideration. 



DISCUSSION. 



A Member: The speaker has made the statement that oleo 

 was as good as country butter. Now, I claim it is not as good 

 as any butter, good, bad or indifferent. 



Mr. Spicer: I don't know about that. My statement was 

 that the poor butter was largely responsible for the introduction 

 of oleo, because the oleo people never could have got on their 



