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neighborhood of 33 to 34^ pounds of butter. It would depend 

 largely upon the skill of the buttermaker in avoiding losses, and 

 in the manipulation and incorporation of moisture, salt, etc. In 

 other words, 100 pounds of fat ought to make from 110 to 115 

 pounds of butter; 100 pounds is low, but many creameries do 

 not get above that. I know at the university it sometimes runs 

 115 pounds, but when over that they have to show me that they 

 have not made a mistake somewhere. 



I don't know how it is in your state, but with us we have 

 the feeling that in spite of all the objections to the hand separator 

 it is coining, and it is coming fast. One of our most prominent 

 creamerymen told me yesterday that he had made complete 

 arrangements to receive nothing but hand separator cream after 

 the next two months. A year ago he was making inquiries 

 about the hand separator, wondering whether it was advisable 

 to take it up or not. 



Conditions with us are changing rapidly. The fact remains 

 that in almost every instance where the hand separator has been 

 exclusively used, the quality of the butter has not been up to 

 that made from the whole milk, not because it cannot be but sim- 

 ply because it is not. There is a great amount of educational 

 work to be done in instructing those patrons on how to handle 

 their cream in order to get the same results in quality, and cream- 

 cries have been so reluctant to undertake that gigantic problem 

 of educating the farmers that they have worked against it as 

 long as they could ; but I believe they will have to come to it in 

 a great many communities. 



At the university we are making all our butter from hand 

 separator cream. We have the advantage, though, over the 

 ordinary creamery in that our farmers sort of feel that a uni- 

 versity expects a better quality of product. We get our deliv- 

 eries three times a week, except in the coldest weather. We 

 would like them all the time, but we are just like other folks — 

 cannot always get what we want. I believe one of the things 

 that is going to be important in helping to raise the standard 

 of the hand separator cream butter is paying for the cream 



