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cents. Now, if we can get clear up to the front, I believe 

 we can get that market ; w^e have certainly got a field to work 

 in, and we must not sit down with the idea that we as cream- 

 ery men and butter-makers have reached perfection. For that 

 reason I do not like these one hundred scores; they are dan- 

 gerous. As soon as we get the idea that we have reached 

 perfection some fellow is going past us, because when we get 

 into that condition we fail to progress, and when we come to 

 a standstill, it is a very short time before somebody goes past 

 us. We must progress, and this is one of the lines in which 

 we can do it, by working with our patrons to bring us a 

 better quality of milk, and then we can make a higher grade 

 of butter and get a better price for it. 



Mr. Soverhill: I think sometimes the charge is laid on 

 the patron where it should be on the creamery man. 



Mr. Johnson: I want to make one suggestion to people 

 who bring milk to factories. If I were you I would carefully 

 observe what my milk tested; then I would know the yield, 

 keep track of the average test and of the average yield of 

 milk and of butter. I would know the price of the butter, 

 and then you can come very near telling whether your factory 

 is using you right or not. When you take pains to investigate 

 those four points, then you can go to the manager of the 

 factory, without embarrassment, and ask questions; if those 

 things are not put on your statement, you have a right to go 

 and ask for them, and when you have found those things out, 

 you will know whether the proprietor of that factory that 

 you patronize is doing as well as the other fellows do. 



Mr. Post: I am not now a patron of a creamery, but I 

 have patronized Mr. Gurler's factory for a good many years, 

 and I want to speak of the dissatisfaction that arises on the 

 part of patrons. My surroundings at present are such that 

 I get the views and the sentiments and wishes of patrons of 

 creameries, because my business is mostly bottoming chairs, 

 and I have ample opportunity to hear the views of patrons 

 in my own locality and in neighboring localities. The great 

 dissatisfaction arising on the part of patrons is simply this: 

 The inside workings of the creameries are not known to the 

 patrons. As this gentleman remarks, if three or four points 

 could be thoroughly understood on the part of the patrons, 



