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avenues of economy in the business heretofore unthought of. 

 You may form some estimate of their magnitude from the fact 

 that within the last three years considerably over 100 co-opera- 

 tive creameries, on the plan I speak of, have been established in 

 New England alone, and they are giving better satisfaction 

 than anything that has preceded them in that line. The busi- 

 ness of every one of them is largely on the increase; in most 

 cases the annual product has been doubled and thribbled. 



They are in every sense of the word co-operative ; they re- 

 turn to every patron the full value of his cream, less the actual 

 cost of manufacturing the butter. The secret of their success is 

 in having adopted one uniform method of handling the milk and 

 producing the cream ; by that means they are enabled to pro- 

 duce the finest quality of butter, at a reduced cost, and get the 

 best price for it. Its uniformity commands an extra price on 

 the market. 



The co-operative creamery commends itself to all classes of 

 producers of butter, for the reason that it equalizes the value of 

 all contributions with perfect justice to each one; it gives to the 

 superior butter maker an increased return for his milk, with 

 less labor expended, and it insures the maker of inferior butter 

 a return greater than he can realize any other way from his milk. 



It enables the farmer to utilize the skimmed milk on the 

 farm to the best advantage ; in fact nothing is wasted or lost to 

 the producer. The consequence is, the cash returns are larger, 

 and give so much satisfaction to the co-operators that the dairies 

 in the east are being largely increased where they have hereto- 

 fore been neglected, under the impression that dairying in the 

 east could not compete with the west on account of the differ- 

 ence in the cost of feed. 



It looks now very much as if it was only a question of short 

 time when the west can no longer count upon New Englanders 

 as consumers of western butter. 



The capital stock of a co-operative creamery usually runs 

 from $1,800 to $4,000, according to surrounding circumstances. 

 The organization consists of a president, secretary, board of 





