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without any required number, but the certificates must be handed 

 in to the secretary. He has to sign them and they then go to 

 the depot to be stamped. If you will hand them to the secretary 

 at the desk here, they will receive the required attention. 



By the President : — We will listen to Mr. Newbery on 

 " Relations of Buttermaker and Patron." 



RELATIONS OF BUTTERMAKER AND PATRON. 



By J. R. Newbery, Flora, III 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : — 



It would be an easy matter to describe the relation of the 

 buttermaker to the patron. He stands between the patron and 

 the manufacturer, whether individual or a corporation. He also 

 stands between the patron and the consumer. Again, we might 

 call him a finisher, for he takes the raw product of the dairy and 

 finishes it for the market. But when your Secretary suggested 

 this subject, he did not expect us to take it in the narrow sense, 

 but the broad. The relation and duty of buttermaker and patron. 



I have already described the buttermaker' s relation as that 

 of middle man, now let us see what is his duty to the patron. 



I would say that the buttermaker's first duty to the patron 

 is to be a first-class buttermaker, and make butter that will grade 

 extra all the time, for upon his standing as a buttermaker depends 

 the price of butter fat to the farmer, and upon the price of butter 

 fat depends the success of the creamery and of its patrons. 



This subject, " The Relation of Buttermaker and Patron," 

 is a subject of very great importance, a subject which I am not 

 capable of handling as it should be presented here today, and 

 what I fail to bring out, or make clear in the time allowed me, 

 I trust you will bring out in the discussion to follow. 



I think in telling of the relation of the buttermaker to the 

 patron, we should also speak of the relation of the patron to the 

 buttermaker, and where and in what they can help each other. 



