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manufacturer, is absolutely necessary, and will prove an investment that will retui 
to us manifold profits. 
Let us bear in mind that the producer now demands our most earnest attentioi 
His attention must be called to all those little points so essential in making a fane 
article of butter. We must create an interest at the fountain head. He must unde 
stand that his interests and the manufacturer’s are mutual; that if he makes h. 
dairy a success he must do everything in his power to make the business of his mam 
facturer also a success, that he may not be a financial cripple, but strong, sturdy an 
vigorous, confident in the power behind him ; like a general that leads a loyal an 
enthusiastic army—sure of success and a stranger to defeat. Th^re should exist 
certain degree of independence that is equivalent to healthy discipline, which woul 
force those with eyes, to see, and those with ears, to hear, that all might be benefitec 
thus doing away with the dangers that menace the industry from the present must 
room growth of creameries. Almost every cross-roads has its factory with its in 
promptu proprietor scouring the country eager for patronage, ready to take anythin 
m the shape ot cream, from which it is as impossible to make fine butter as it woul 
be to weave silken fabric out of cotton warp. I come more directly in contact wit 
this feature m Jackson county, Iowa—where I have been buying butter, for ten year 
—as all are aware who have given this matter any attention. Many of the low 
brands of creamery are now selling below fine dairy, and in many sections the farmer 
are going back to the old methods, but taking their education with them, however 
and are making a fine grade, enabling us to pay them splendid prices for their goods 
an y being driven from the business I have established another house thi 
fall, thus showing a possible ebb-tide throughout the entire system. The same con 
ditions are becoming prevalent in this state, and we are not free from the gatherin 
gloom in this county .although I readilv see that to regulate it is beyond the power o 
any individual.. It will sooner or later become self-adjustable. These innumerabl 
abuses must bring us to grief. The tempest will soon be upon us—the great, surgin; 
billows must have victims, the numerous hosts of inexperienced and systemless opei 
ators must go down. Hundreds of dollars’ worth of property will constitute the de 
bns and many of our farmers will come out of the fire with burnt fingers. Will it b 
a loss . No ; it will be but the tuition of a well-learned lesson—a lasting impressioi 
from the bitter school of experience. But let me ask our farmers while indulging ii 
the bitterness of their disgust and indignation, not to condemn all for the faults of th 
few, for remember, you shall have been a party to the crime. You did not repel thei 
advances, but listened to their importunities, and through a blind hope of persona 
gam you helped lay the foundation of the confusion—I will not say failure, for ther 
will be steady hands and wise heads that will stand at the helm, and through th 
fiercest ot the storm, carry their crafts over the wave crests to a safe harbor. 
But let me not worry your patience any longer. Let me now tell you how you can 
when we meet at subsequent conventions, scoff at my arguments, and pronounce me; 
false prophet. Build good milk houses, have good wells with windmills where spring 
are not available, keep your cream at a temperature ranging from fifty-eight to sixty 
two deg., see to it that the milk, when the cream is removed at the end of twenty-fou 
to thirty-six hours, is cold and sweet, and blue as the skies of heaven ; use great cau 
tion m milking and. straining, removing the milk from all filthy localities and offens 
ive smells, secure rich, succulent food for your cows during short pastures in Augus 
and September, in fact, at all times when your judgment tells you they ought to liav< 
it, and for eminent success feed a little grain throughout the entire season. Let youi 
cream go to some manufacturer who makes it his business and study to take propei 
care of it, demand of him an article of butter commensurate with your own effort: 
and the grade of material you give him, and ask of him business capacity and profes 
sional skill just as you expect it of your merchant, your doctor or your lawyer, ren 
dermg it unnecessary for him to cheat you to bring himself gain. Concentrate youi 
forces so that your creamerycan at least average 1,000 pounds per day, but do noi 
allow tae distance for gathering to be greater than can be brought in every night 
appoint three intelligent men of your community to act as your committee to see thal 
your accounts are properly attended to and that careless and imprudent patrons art 
made to conform to the rules, that the whole system may not derive injury from theii 
carelessness. Let a reasonable price per pound be established for manufacturing 
giving the farmers the ups and downs of the market. 
l am positively against any standard of measurement. Would advise, therefore, 
average yields, thus doing away with a great opportunity for fraud. My 
yield for the season just closed, was as follows: April, one pound butter from 93.1 
cubic inches of cream; May, one pound from 93.6; June, one pound from 90.8 ; July, 
one pound from 91; August, one pound from 91; September, one pound from 94: 
October, one pound from 97.8, and November, one pound from 103, at no time taking 
tne standard, or 113 cubic inches—making an average for the eight months of 94.fi 
cubic inches cream to one pound butter. My pri 
months in the same factory were : April, 23 and 4 
AP s per pound of butter for the same 
cents; May, 19 and 6-10 
