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it costs only one half cent per pound more to put butter into tlie 

 New York market from Elgin than from Central New York. 

 With cheap lands, cheap feed, and abundance of good water, 

 it would seem that the future prospects of our dairy interest 

 were good. Fresh creamery butter would at all times com- 

 mand a good price, while old would always be a drug at low 

 prices. All goods should be sold when ready for market. 

 Hon. Wm. Patten, Sandwich, said a great deal depended 

 on taste, as to price; he sent some finely made colored butter 

 to Chicago market^ and received thirty-three cents for it; by 

 request he sent some uncolored equally good, and received 

 only twenty-three cents per pound. He concluded that if one 

 sixth per cent, used in coloring added nine cents to his profits 

 they might have the coloring. 



'^ The best plan to avoid the low prices which usually pre- 

 vail for butter and cheese during the summer months," was 

 opened by Dr. Stone, who said the essential points of this 

 question were embodied in the first. It was an important 

 question, and if anyone could help us out of this dilemma 

 he would confer a great blessing upon the dairymen. When 

 milk sells for fifty cents per hundred pounds in July, and a 

 dollar and a half in January, something is wrong. If it were 

 not for that reformed taste, we could hold the summer product 

 for winter prices; but as it now is, let the dealer hold summer 

 products for six months, and he will continue to hold them 

 the rest of his lifetime. Taste is the thing at last. People 

 will not eat old cheese or butter. The only way out is to 

 make more milk in winter, when everybody wants it. Would 

 make most when demand is greatest. In June and July milk 

 is always low, in January it is always high ; and the butter 

 wanted is not to be had — ^. ^., good butter. Poorly fed cows 

 in winter make poor butter. If a winter article is made, cows 

 must be well cared for and well grained, or the product will 

 be as poor as July. 



Mr. Patten would' like the experience of some practical 

 winter dairyman. 



E. G. Ketchum was called for, who said he had never kept 



