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and all foundation and partition walls should be carried up a foot 

 or more of the same material. Hollow brick walls are better 

 than solid walls. Cement mortar on metallic lathing makes a 

 satisfactory material for walls both outside and in. Wood is the 

 least satisfactory of all materials used for inside creamery walls. 

 Walls should be kept p-i.inted, k?-lsomined or whitewashed. A 

 very cheap and durable w^hitewash is made of portland cement and 

 quick lime in equal proportions. These should be slaked separ- 

 ately with water and thinned with skim milk, to the desired 

 consistency. Ventilation should be provided for and all waste 

 should be carried away to safe distance in a tight covered drain, 

 properly trapped and vented. An abundant supply of pure water 

 is indispensible. 



Our buttermaking industry has not kept pace with our 

 manufacturing in other lines. American manufacturers are the 

 most enterprising in the world and their wares are found in the 

 uttermost parts of the earth. The adoption of better business 

 methods in dairying will result in greater profits. 



Milk, the raw material from which butter is made, should 

 be of the best quality in order that the butter may be fine. The 

 buttermaker who accepts bad milk or cream injures the whole 

 body of patrons including the owner of the milk. He harms his 

 employer and is guilty of fraud on the purchaser and consumer 

 of the butter. Most of all, he injures himself. A buttermaker 

 who will knowingly accept milk rejected at another creamery is 

 a disgrace to the profession and the time will come sooner or 

 later when he will suffer for his sins. 



To make fine butter and the greatest possible yield from the 

 milk at the least possible cost for labor (always the expensive 

 item in manufacturing) the machinery should be the best procura- 

 ble and should be so arranged as to economize labor. Most 

 creameries could be improved In this respect. 



A buttermaker holds a responsible position. If he Is honest, 

 clean, skillful, painstaking and obliging, he should command 

 good wages. A man who is wanting in any one of the above 

 qualities is dear at any wage. The tendency to cut down wages 



