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Hello there!

I've been stuck behind this boiler ever since she shifted years ago. Don't worry about me though, the crew here is mighty good to me. They bring me bread and butter, buttered chicken, butter milk, butter tarts and plenty of other tasty things whenever I need them.

Yup, everyone if real good here. We have upwards of a dozen and a half folks doing everything from picking up the cream with the trucks, testing and weighing the cream, washing the cans and equipment, building the butter boxes, operating the churn and the butter printer , firing the boiler, looking after the orders at the feed mill, and managing the office. Old J.J. Creighton? The owner? He is the finest you'll ever meet. There is not a job here he won't do along with everyone else. Why just the other day, he was on top of the big pile stacking feed bags in the feed mill with the boys.

Pay's good too. Why that young Fred in the office, he's making 30 dollars a week, not bad in 1950 for a young fella fresh out of business school in Truro. And he only works five and a half days a week. Off at noon on Saturdays he is!

I figure this here boiler is the heart of the operation. At one time it powered a steam engine that powered the whole Creamery. Nowerdays it provides all the hot water and steam required to pasturize the cream, sterlize the cream cans and equipment and heat the building. The boiler was built nearby in a foundry in New Glasgow, Pictou County. And it was fired with Nova Scotia coal brought in on the railroad. Nowerdays it is fired with oil and the machinery is run with these new-fangled electric motors.

Well, hope to see you again soon, if this darn old boiler don't decide to take another lurch towards Tatamagouche harbour!

See ya!