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feed. However, one class of bad men might spoil the 

 good effects of many good ones. He had found out that 

 dividing the milk in his factory, putting the milk of big 

 producers in one place and that of small ones in another, 

 resulted good. He had found in doing this that by the 

 other way half of his patrons were robbing the other half 

 The small patrons were robbing the big ones. We must 

 bear in mind that it took good milk to make good butter, 

 and it took good butter to find buyers. 



W. Patten : Had had but little experience in butter- 

 making. Was running a small private dairy. He had 

 married a woman who, in her own estimation, knew how 

 to make butter better than he did. He wanted to run the 

 butter-making, but his wife would not let him. But he 

 had a chance once: His wife was called away to the home 

 of his son, last fall, by one of those unfortunate accidents 

 which frequently occur to newly-married couples, and he 

 tried his hand at it. He made a good batch of butter and 

 sent it to Chicago. He didn't hear any thing about it until 

 he called at the commission house on his way to the con- 

 vention, and found, as the merchant told him, that the 

 butter kept well— very well. He didn't want his wife to 

 know any thing about it, and told the man to bill it at 

 thirty-five cents per pound in returns and he would make 

 up the difference. If he had thought any of the women 

 present would ever see his wife he would not have told of 

 It. 



Mrs. Geo. Sands : Had made butter a good while, 

 but lately her " lord and master " had learned how, and 

 now he knew it all. He attended the State Dairymen's 

 Convention at Elgin for a few hours, and he knew much 

 more than she did. He did well, however. The last month 



