122 AGRICULTURE OF MAIXE. 



It will be observed that a milk and cream contest systematizes 

 and makes possible a study, in detail, of the various influences 

 aflfecting the milk and cream supply. 



It is a perfectly natural thing for any man who is a producer 

 of milk, to believe that his own particular product is about 

 right, and if there is any trouble anywhere it is most likely to 

 be with that produced by the other fellow. The score card is 

 no respecter of persons, it is no respecter of wealth, politics or 

 position. The score card deals with the product and we do 

 not care anything about ivJw produces it. Among the things 

 which have been most prominently brought to our attention in 

 some of the contests are those in connection with the appearance 

 of the package and its contents. Before we ever disturb a bottle 

 of milk by shaking it or a bottle of cream by pouring it, we look 

 carefully at the package, and to aid us in a careful examination 

 we make use of a good reading glass. We hold the bottle of 

 milk high enough so that we can see the bottom of it without 

 disturbing the contents, and carefully examine it for sediment. 

 Now it is true that a producer hardly ever looks for sediment 

 in his own milk, and it is one of the things which he should 

 watch very carefully. If you are taking to town along with 

 your milk more or less sediment, don't you want to know it, 

 and don't you want to correct it before the consumers find it 

 out? In these days consumers are beginning to look at the 

 bottom of the bottle as well as for the cream line. Right here 

 is a bottle that contains some very coarse particles. I do not 

 suppose the man who sent it knows that it contains sediment 

 or that he thought it possible that there should be such a thing 

 as sediment in his milk. I am not going to tell you whose milk 

 it is, but // it is yours then you want to more effectually guard 

 against sediment in the future. It is a thing that can be pre- 

 vented. We have other exhibits here that do not contain any 

 sediment whatever. I have one in my hand which is apparently 

 as clean as anything can be. Next year when you send your 

 milk and cream down to the exhibit, try hard to have it abso- 

 lutely clean and free from any foreign matter whatever. This 

 is one of the first things you ought to correct, because in correct- 

 ing it you are going to make a lot of other things easier. By 

 keeping the dirt out of your milk you are going to have a more 



