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feed. However, one class of bad men might spoil the 
good effects of many good ones. He had found out that 
dividing the milk in his factory, putting the milk of big 
producers in one place and that of small ones in another, 
resulted good. He had found in doing this that by the 
other way half of his patrons were robbing the other half. 
The small patrons were robbing the big ones. We must 
bear in mind that it took good milk to make good butter, 
and it took good butter to find buyers. 
W. Patten: Had had but little experience in butter¬ 
making. Was running a small private dairy. He had 
married a woman who, in her own estimation, knew how 
to make butter better than he did. He wanted to run the 
butter-making, but his wife would not let him. But he 
had a chance once: His wife was called away to the home 
of his son, last fall, by one of those unfortunate accidents 
which frequently occur to newly-married couples, and he 
tried his hand at it. He made a good batch of butter and 
sent it to Chicago. He didn’t hear any thing about it until 
he called at the commission house on his way to the con¬ 
vention, and found, as the merchant told him, that the 
butter kept well—very well. He didn’t want his wife to 
know any thing about it, and told the man to bill it at 
thirty-five cents per pound in returns and he would make 
up the difference. If he had thought any of the women 
Mrs. Geo. Sands : Had made butter a good while, 
but lately her “ lord and master ” had learned how, and 
now he knew it all. He attended the State Dairymen’s 
Convention at Elgin for a few hours, and he knew much 
more than she did. He did well, however. The last month 
