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not some way of getting the patrons who don't give their milk 

 and cream the care they should, to do it? There are many 

 creamery managers and buttermakers working faithfully all their 

 spare time trying to devise some way of counteracting the acid 

 in cream, to put it back into condition to make extra butter, 

 that is cream which has been neglected by the patron who 

 produces it. 



The dairy schools are turning out buttermakers by the 

 hundreds, but I haven't learned that they have them educated 

 up to a high enough standard to handle the kind of cream 

 referred to to the satisfaction of the creamery managers at all 

 times and under all conditions. There is no question but that 

 the dairy schools and experiment stations in this country have 

 done an unlimited amount of good to the creamery and dairy 

 interests. What the creameries need is more of this knowledge 

 instilled into the brains of the dairymen and buttermakers of 

 this glorious country. 



Dairy schools are to buttermakers what the normal schools 

 are to the school teachers. They need the kind of training to 

 make them proficient in their work. 



The time may come when a buttermaker may be required 

 to have a dairy school training, the same as a school teacher is 

 required to have a normal school training at the present time. 



The creameries need more field workers at the present 

 time throughout the state, men who work among dairies, testing 

 the cows regularly during the season. They are able to get 

 close to the dairymen and do them an unlimited amount of good. 

 They issue bulletins containing their year's work and distribute 

 them among the dairymen. Life is too short for the average 

 dairyman to work out all the knotty problems in his line of 

 business. 



The experiment station and field workers are paid by the 

 state to do the work and distribute their knowledge to those 

 who may seek it. I sometimes think creamery managers need 

 to get together and draw some lines or make such arrangements 

 as will benefit their patrons and themselves. 



