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was visited at five in the afternoon, when the work is done. His»floor was 

 on the pine order, built below the surface of the ground, windows; were 

 down, but floor was still wet. He was the kind that flushed water so 

 hard; it is the peculiarity of the man. What the commission wants is 

 to have them pay more attention to the sanitary part of the cramery. 

 In going through some of these places we have said it seemed that any old 

 thing in the line of sanitation would do. We want the co-operation of 

 the creamerymen in this matter. Do not suppose to drive you to the 

 wall, nothing of the kind. It is not a hard matter to make a standard 

 in regard to cleanliness. That standard will be raised and we shall expect 

 every creamery to come up to that standard. 



Now in regard to the owner. 1 find this kind of an owner: I ask to see 

 ihe vat and he will tell me he is going to have a new one in the spring. 

 Tell him his wooden floor is old, worn out, and he tells me he is going 

 to have a nice cement floor. He will go on and detail all these things to 

 me, if I notice the deficiencies. 



Another man meets me. "How's Burke?" "How did you find my 

 place out there?" I will tell jhini what was needed to be done there 

 and he will say, "Why, is that so?" I tell him his floor is pretty w r ell 

 rotted out and his answer will be. "Why, you don't say so. I must see 

 Jim about that." I just tell you these little things to show you how we 

 are met by some of the owners. I think when a man has studied details, 

 he has learned a very good moral lesson of taking his faults and blame 

 upon his own shoulders, and it has been my experience, when yon find a 

 man willing to take the blame upon himself, he is going to improve 

 mighty fast. The one man is a good, happy-go-lucky kind of a fellow, 

 who depends on Jim, and if he hasn't a good Jim, he will be in trouble all 

 the time. What we want to bring to the attention of the owner is that 

 he must study these conditions as well. Some of them never stop to think 

 of the sanitary part of their creamery, but will wear a pencil out figur- 

 ing on the money end of the busir.ess. 



Now, gentlemen,: I have talked longer than I intended to. This is a 

 very great question, and 1 want to state again to you Mr. President, that 



