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you had from four to six hundred patrons, as I haye had, 

 sometimes, it is quite an undertaking. 



Mr. Judd: But don't it pay in the end to keep a man 

 whose business it is to visit these farms and see that things 

 are carried on right, and if they are not right, that they are 

 corrected? 



Mr. Johnson: There comes in another difficult task. 

 That man goes to your barn, looks at your cow stable, looks 

 at your strainer, and tells you, "Here, Judd, that won't do; 

 you must take better care of your milk." You say to him, 

 "Mr. Smith has a factory right over there. Get right out of 

 this barn, if you don't want that milk; Mr. Smith will take it." 



Mr. Judd: Mr. Smith ought to have a man doing the 

 same business. 



Mr. Johnson: But Mr. Smith would not have. 



Mr. Judd: But wouldn't it pay if all factory men would 

 insist on having an inspector to visit each one of their patrons, 

 make it part of the creamery management? 



Mr. Johnson: I understand that the condensing factories 

 do this, and they succeed, because they are paying enough 

 more so that they can abuse the patron and the patron won't 

 kick. Now, you may turn around and sa}^, that the factory 

 should be in that same position. That is impossible. I don't 

 want anybody to misinterpret this, but, as soon as a man 

 succeeds in working up a dairy interest, if he will go and buy 

 cows and trust the farmers for cows and build a factory, and 

 put four or five thousand dollars into it — I won't say in every 

 case — but there are too many cases where some patron thinks 

 that if he happens to build a new house he is getting too rich, 

 and if they club together and ride over in an adjoining neigh- 

 borhood and start another factory, and that knocks the man 

 out. Competition is all right, but it does prevent factories 

 carrying out their ideas. 



Mr. Judd: Do you think that this system, where they 

 insist on every man who takes milk to a creamery taking out 

 at least one share for each cow that he has, is a success or not? 



Mr. Johnson: I couldn't answer that. In theory it is 

 all right, but I know humanity well enough to know that it 

 might run for a year or two, but I question whether it will 



