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I think there would be more harmony and a greater degree of 

 satisfaction on their part. I know that was my case when I 

 was farming and was drawing my milk to Mr. Gurler's fac- 

 tory, there were many things that I did not understand, and 

 I had no means of finding out about the workings of the 

 factory. Let us go a little farther. Through the summer 

 seasons some of our restaurant men have been in the habit 

 of going to our factory and getting two, three or four quarts 

 of cream at a time, and repeating that twice or three times 

 in the course of a week. Some of the inhabitants of the 

 Tillage go there and get their butter; many of them go there 

 to get their milk for their family consumption. Now, there is 

 nothing that appears upon the bill to show that there is any 

 account made of this whatever. Very likely there is an 

 account. I do not wish to charge our young man there with 

 doing anything that is not right or being dishonest, because 

 I believe he is an honest man, but we have nothing to show 

 upon the face of those bills that there is any record whatever 

 made of those things. Now, any man that is interested in a 

 transaction wants to know whether the thing is running 

 smoothly or not, and unless he can know these things, he 

 thinks, as the saying is, "there is a nigger in the fence some- 

 where." I was talking some time ago with Mr. Lane; he 

 has been a patron at Mr. Gurler's factory ever since it was 

 started. He is an able farmer, a shrewd, close thinker and 

 reader, and he said to me ,"I know nothing about this trans- 

 action whatever. I think the farmers are numbskulls to let 

 this thing go on, and not understand it any better than they 

 do," and I think so myself. 



The Chairman: You are aware, are you not, that I am 

 not interested in that creamery any more. I want to be put 

 right on that. I have no interest there at the present time. 



Mr. Johnson: I am glad to hear that question brought 

 up, though there are very few of my patrons present. This 

 Mr. Lane is a stranger to me, but I think his position is en- 

 tirely wrong. It would require another clerk to do the work 

 beyond what any creamery man could do, and, of course, no 

 creamery man could afford that. I have often told my patrons, 

 "If you wish it, I will print the ten commandments on every 

 statement, so that you can read them at the end of the month ; 



