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Show WHAT TO DO WITH THE IGNORANT PATRON. This sort of a patron is always a poser po-ser to a creamery or cheese factory. Invariably, we may say he is an ignorant, ig-norant, stubborn, unteachablc man. We have never yet seen that sort of patron who as a reader of dairy papers, pap-ers, or who tried to be an intelligent dairy farmer. The old saying that "ignorance is the mother of vice", mny be paraphrasd to say that ignorance ignor-ance is the mother of dirty milk and foul surroundings. The other day a creamery proprietor propri-etor told us of the following incident: He had a patron who was a fairly good farmer and who kept quite a large herd of cows. The creamery man wanted his patronage but he had considerable difficulty in getting the man to see that his way of handling his milk made trouble in the cream cry. His night's cream was almortc always of bad flavor, strong in a stable taste and odor, while the cream from the morning's milk would be much better. So early one morning the creamery man paid a visit to this patron. He found that he kept the can in which the night's cream was put, in his stable over night .so it would not freeze. The can was taken out into the clear air and the farmer was asked to smell of it. He was astonished that he could smell the stable odor in that cream and he said: "Why I -never thought that staying over night in the stable would give it that smell." Now, think of a dairy farmer in this day and age of the world, with such a chance as he has for taking in correct ideas of handling milk giving evidence of stirli rant- : -- that. Then think of his being perfectly perfect-ly content to remain in such ignorance, ignoran-ce, having no more pride in his standing stand-ing as man and farmer than to be guilty of such practices. This farmer was a good, honest man, but he was grossly ignorant of sound dainy knowledge and he though it would be almost a sin to pay a dollar dol-lar a year for a good dairy paper that would teach him better. The reat trouble with the creamery business today is just this ignorance on the part of many farmers, of what constitutes con-stitutes good dairy practice. And it is' astounding how willing they arc to remain in that ignorance when they could make twice the money by being be-ing more intelligent. Hoard's Dairyman believes in "laying "lay-ing the -axe at the root of the tree;" in talking plainly on his question. Farmers who keep' cows must make up their minds to know more about tficir own busih'css. Igrioratice of well settled dairy principles is too expensive. ex-pensive. It causes costly waste and keeps the farmer under the harrow all the while The way to reform this condition of things is for the farmer to read the special literature of dairy farming. The demand of society is upon him for clean milk, cream and butter. Laws arc being passed in all the states to compel the sanitary handling of dairy utensils and stables and of the milk. No farmer can afford, af-ford, for the sake of the good money he wants to cam, to be cardes or indifferent in-different to his own education on , dairy matters. Now, this farmer of whom we have spoken, was not the one sinner alone in the way of keeping cream in a stable over night. There arc thousands thous-ands like him, and down goes the qual-' ity of our creamery butter and its price, because of such stupid action. It is a strange thing but true never- , thclcss, that farmers who would bring ' good milk to a creamery in the old j way, will now, since they 'have a farm separator, bring dirty, bad smelling cream and they don't seem to know that they arc doing the wrong tiling. What is this but the result of ignor- . ancc? Hoard's Dairyman . n 1 . |