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twice a year. If she costs $60, we sell $120 worth of butter 
from her in a twelve-month.” 
I show this butter and make this statement before the Dairy¬ 
men’s Association of New York, not because it describes 
novel methods, not because a thousand farmers’ wives in 
Orange and Saratoga, in Dutchess, in Herkimer, Oneida and 
St. Lawrence cannot make butter just as good as this ; but in 
order that a knowledge of the thrift of Quaker dairymen may 
stir you to a generous rivalry. Scores of house-keepers in 
and near New York send across the state of New Jersey and 
pay over seventy-five cents for every pound of butter they use. 
They would not do it if you who drive your herds over these 
breezy and sweet-scented hills would roll your butter into just 
such balls, stamp them as handsomely, wrap them as daintily, 
and supply your customers with a regularity and a certainty 
as uncommon as it is praiseworthy. 
We have in New York city at least a thousand families who 
would consume five pounds each—5,000 pounds a week—of 
just such butter as this; and a price above seventy-five cents 
would not for a moment check their eagerness to buy. I take 
it that I speak your sentiments when I say that the dairymen 
of Central New York would be only too happy to furnish 
5,000 pounds of butter a week at prices so enticing. 
