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date and in good repair and the buttermaker has sufficient help 

 to carry on his work as it ought to be done, he should rightly be 

 held accountable for a low percentage of overrun. But no cream- 

 ery company or employer ought to expect that their buttermaker 

 should do his work properly if he is worked beyond his physical 

 and mental capacity, and in that respect many employers are 

 penny wise and dollar foolish. However, when the buttermaker 

 is working under favorable conditions I can see no reason why 

 his results should vary much from the percentage that I have 

 mentioned. Creameries selling their products directly to the 

 groceries or consumers and in this way eliminatirg the shrinkage 

 should show better results than creameries that depend on com- 

 mission houses to dispose of their goods. 



In most cases a poor churn yield shows inefficient work of 

 the buttermaker. He cannot shift the responsibility, as when 

 the quality is involved. We buttermakers can always put the 

 blame on the milk or cream whenever the quality is not right, 

 although it might have been our starter that was not exactly 

 right, or the cream was not cooled down to the proper tem- 

 perature when it was ready; or even in some cases the factory 

 was not in a sanitary condition. "Cleanliness ii next to Godli- 

 ness." We have an old doctor at Camp Point who is a very 

 enthusiastic dairyman. He asserts that cleanliness in dairying 

 is Godliness itself, pure and simple, and, as an evidence, he con- 

 tends that one can eat a piece of strong or filthy butter and 

 praise God at the same time. 



Now, I am not trying to defend the milk producers, their 

 transgressions are too numerous to mention, especially if they 

 use hand separators. I am only contending that in many cases 

 better butter could have been made if the milk and cream had 

 received better care at the creamery. 



In conclusion, permit me again to emphasize that while a 

 large overrun is of the utmost importance, the quality should 

 never be sacrificed in order to gain quantity. And if co-opera- 

 tive and centralizing creameries would make that a rule and in- 

 clude it in their New Year's resolutions, much good would be 

 accomplished. 



The Chairman : — We will now stand adjourned until 9 

 o'clock tomorrow morning. 



