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business is extending. Their conditions are mute different: 

 they have cheaper lands and may be able to produce milk cheaper 

 than you can on your high priced land when they know their 

 business better. 



.In our work at the university we can help the buttermaker 

 through correspondence. Many buttermakers write to us for 

 advice; they write for men to go out to help them in their 

 creameries and. as I stated before, they also write for advice 

 about machinery, about methods, about improvements, about 

 conditions of their factories, about changes in equipment, and 

 so on, so we are able to advise with them and help them along 

 these lines. I may add that these questions that come up on 

 different points of dairying, no matter to whom the} - are ad- 

 dressed, are handed on to the man whose special department it is. 

 For instance, a question about feeding dairy cattle Professor 

 Frazer answers — the rations, the kind of feed that is economical 

 to buy to supplement the feed the farmer already has ; a question 

 regarding butter and cheese is turned over to me ; a question 

 regarding testing of milk to Mr. Hayden, who takes charge of 

 that department. We have the work divided up in this way 

 and try to give the farmers and dairymen the benefit of our 

 experience along these lines. Any question we cannot answer 

 (and sometimes we cannot answer a question satisfactorily) we 

 frankly tell the man that it is beyond our knowledge and he 

 can work the question out for himself, and sometimes some of 

 these questions suggest different lines of experimental work that 

 we are able to follow and give information that will be of general 

 interest. Any question of general information we try to get the 

 information among a larger class than we could reach by cor- 

 respondence alone. 



Then we have applications from creameries for butter- 

 makers, also applications from men for positions. We try to* 

 put these parties into correspondence as much as possible so we 

 can help both classes We often have applications for men to 

 take charge of herds and sometimes supply men because the de- 

 mand for men in these positions, I must say. is greater than the 



