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Show . o GOOD BYE ELGIN. The gathered cream crca mcrics, with their dirty, foul cream, made 0!Vby farmers who arc dirty in their habits, arc fast breaking down the quality of the Elgin butter market. The term "E'gin".uscd to stand for first quality. It will not be so long. Already the hand separator farmer, who docs not realize his relation to the market, who docs not care to deliver sweet, pure cream, is crowd-' crowd-' ing out the whole milk of the Elgin ,distnct. It is getting to be more and more difficult to find first-class butter in this district and the qu.Qtatipn of.tfic Elgin market; is only for the best. " ll will not be long before there will c so little fine butter made in this district that the term "Elgin" will no't be used to settle monthly balances bal-ances with the patrons. It is going that way on a gallop and all because the average farmer with his hand separator docs not know what he is about, nor care much, if he can only get his foul cream off his hands. When a large proportion of farmers arc so indifferent to the market value 'orclcanlincss as to leave the can of cream in the badly ventilated stable over night, and for three nights at '''that, it will drive buyers to some bthcr section of the country for fine butter that brings a good price, and it ought to. Now listen to the cry that will go ' up fromi such farmers and' the cream-cries cream-cries that handle their dirty cream, fib that Hoard's Dairyman is trying to W i break down the Elgin market. The man who is the real worst enemy to any j and all good markets, who is working f all the tinie to brenk down good 1 pricos, is the farmer who will send bad flavored cream to the creamery. - -$ Let every man in tfie line, from the market to the dairy ,papcr point the finfecr of reproach at him and say, 'Xhou ' art the man." May be, by and by, he will wake up to a realizing realiz-ing sense of what he has to do in the game. Hundreds of farmers who used us-ed to supply good, clean milk arc now sending dirty cream in its place to the creamery. How long can any section of the country hold up in reputation and market value of butter under that kind of action on the part of the men who supply the cream? It is the old old story of the effect of ignorance ig-norance on the market value of a man's product. Every creamery must -fcc judged by its worst patrons. They not the best, govern the quality of the butter made there and the price it brings. Hoard's Dairyman. |