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a new business enterprise. It supplies our local merchants, or 

 should supply them and all the immediately surrounding towns 

 with its product, and should stimulate the farmers to enter into 

 the dairy business more extensively in order to supply the demand 

 here. We desire at this time to thank the State Dairymen's As- 

 sociation for the honor that it has conferred upon us in meeting 

 here. We are glad to have had you with us, and we appreciate 

 it. It means a help to us, and we hope sometime you will see fit 

 to come back again. 



Toastmaster : — The next who will address you is a creamery 

 man. I come from a section of country where the creamery 

 business has been in all stages of its development, and in its early 

 history we met with a variety of experiences. One of the prin- 

 cipal things that used to bother our creameries was returning 

 skim milk. We are farmers and we are honest all right, except- 

 ing when it comes to the skim milk question. But there is some- 

 thing or other, some relation between the average farmer and 

 skim milk, that he will take more than his share of skim milk 

 in spite of anything you can do. An ordinary farmer you can 

 trust, but turn him loose on the skim milk pump and he never 

 knows when to quit. We had an old deacon that was a member 

 of our creamery. He was honest to a cent, but he did have a 

 faculty of getting more skirn milk than belonged to him. He 

 was brought up time and time again before the board of direc- 

 tors. The old gentleman was penitent. He got up and said : "I 

 believe that I did take too much. I know that I did, but when I 

 get to thinking about the goodness of God and working the pump 

 handle, I work too long." Here is a man who can tell you all 

 about the creamery business. I take pleasure in introducing Mr.: 

 Joseph Newman, of Elgin. 



Mr. Newman : — Elgin District Dairymen. Mr. Toastmast- 

 er, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is always a pleasure to speak a 

 word for Elgin. Elgin has been the home of the creamery in- 

 dustry in the west for about forty years. There is a bond of 

 sympathy between Elgin and Clinton tonight. Elgin is probably 

 the oldest in the creamery business, and Clinton is the newest and 



