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more money in some other line. A man who has to work in a 

 factory or creamery ought to have a technical education; he 

 should not drift into this hnsiness because he has to, but he 

 should elect sometime before going into the factory, he should 

 say, " I want to be a buttermaker. I have an ambition to make 

 the finest quality of butter and have charge of a good creamery." 

 Then if he wants to prepare himself for this he can do so best 

 at the university. Having graduated from a high school and 

 being able to enter college and the regular college classes, he 

 takes the four years' university course. He has to take chem- 

 istry and bacteriology, because on these sciences agricultural 

 production and dairy practices are largely based, so he gets a 

 thorough grounding on these subjects ; he gets some geology 

 and biology, veterinary science, agronomy, farm machinery. All 

 these subjects are required ; other subjects he can elect. He 

 can take either horticulture, if he has a penchant for flowers, 

 fruit or vegetable growing, or he can elect along some line of 

 animal husbandry, while the man who wants to follow dairying 

 as an occupation will register for the different dairy courses. 

 A buttermaker with a university training will be better able to 

 cope with difficulties which arise in different creameries and 

 take hold of the situation with better judgment than a man with 

 no such training, and such men are hard to find to act as instruc- 

 tors in our creameries. 



A university course does not necessarily equip a man to 

 take charge of a creamery by any means, but during the four 

 years' training of this university course he has the summers to 

 himself, the time when creamery matters are most active. He 

 has that time to spend in creamery work, and I would advise 

 him to tie himself to no one creaemry, but would advise a man 

 who wants to make the most of his opportunities to take advan- 

 tage of the practical instruction given in different creameries. 

 The question of wages should not be a question of paramount 

 importance. He ought to get an all round education, in a whole 

 milk creamery one year, cream gathering another, possibly a 

 sanitary milk plant another, then in a cheese factory, and in that 



