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Naturally in considering the cow owner's side of the ere 

 cry question, we have first to study the man himself. Among 



the other attributes modern dairying lays not least emphasis 

 enthusiasm, confidence and faith. We are hearing much these 

 days about hand separators because they extend the terri 

 which a given creamery can cover. Its purpose, instead of hav- 

 ing numerous butter factories which manufacture from 500 to 

 1,000 pounds of butter per day, there shall be one large central 

 plant which shall receive cream by rail, trolley line and wagon 

 and make up the product of 5,000 to 100,000 cows in one building". 

 My own ideal of a successful dairy country is one where every 

 man keeps cows as his main business, as the main avenue through 

 which the product of his fields reach the market. In such a 

 country I would have a cow for every fence corner and a creamery 

 at every street crossing. The milk hauling question would be 

 solved by having a sufficient number of cows within two miles 

 of the factory to supply its utmost wants. Not longer hauls of 

 cream but shorter hauls of milk. Xot separating the united pro- 

 duct of all the farms by a steam machine. Modern economy. I 

 am sure, is going to point to this consumation with the hand 

 separator as a temporary expedient. Any such result is to be 

 obtained only by the elimination of the two cow or the three cow 

 dairy. These small dairies are to be eliminated, not by reason of 

 the number of men that keep cows but by- increasing the number 

 of cows that each man keeps. This in turn implies confidence, 

 energy and skill. In my own experience we noted that as our 

 herd increased in numbers our profits per cow increased and I 

 believe that our experience is duplicated in that of every citizen 

 who goes intelligently into the dairy business. You will under- 

 stand exactly what I mean. It seems to me vastly wiser to look 

 forward; to a very dense cow population served b) a larger num- 

 ber of creameries rather than to a sparse scattering of cows, the 

 cream of which is hauled to a central plant disconnected from the 

 cow owners and the milk producers and making the cream into 

 butter solely for what profit there is in it with no interest in the. 

 cow owner whatever. 



