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so far. Having secured orders for forty gallons per day I hur- 

 ried home to get some cans and boxes made. The trial proved 

 a success and since that time, the sweet cream business has gone 

 marching on. 



A few years later we began to pasteurize and separate thin 

 Cooley Cream in order to get thick rich cream for table use. 

 This gave skim-milk in about the proportion of three of skim to 

 two of heavy cream — so called. 



This popular term "heavy cream" is misleading. The cream 

 to which the term is applied is lighter by actual weight than so 

 called "light cream." 



A dozen years ago, or so, a certain grange appointed a com- 

 mittee to weigh a pail of cream and a pail of milk to see how 

 much heavier the cream was than the milk. The report was 

 duly made and accepted that the cream was a certain number 

 of ounces heavier than the milk. Perhaps a pail of cold cream 

 was weighed in comparison with a pail of warm milk with some 

 foam on it — to give this remarkable result. 



The little matter of temperature could easily be overlooked 

 in so crude an experiment. I was once taken severely to do by 

 a customer who claimed that our heavy cream was not up to 

 standard. He had weighed a quart of it in comparison with 

 another brand and found ours not so heavy as the other. 



The phenomenon of cream rising to the top of milk has been 

 explained as due to "natural" cause. It was "natural" for fat 

 to rise, just as it is "natural" for hot air or for a balloon to rise. 

 Now it is not "natural" for anything to rise unless compelled 

 to do so. Imagine a balloon sailing high in the buoyant atmos- 

 phere. If the atmosphere should be suddenly and entirely 

 removed, the balloon would drop to the ground as rapidly as 

 if made of solid lead. 



Cream does not rise on account of any inherent tendency to 

 do so. But the heavier part of the milk presses to the bottom 

 and says to the lighter cream in the language of the theatre 

 ushers "Rise please." If I should fail to obey the usher a 

 policeman would take me by the collar. If cream should dis- 

 obey, along would come a separator man and say "I can snake it 

 out for you — save the cost of the machine in sixty days — to say 

 nothing of having nice warm milk to nurse the young stock" — 

 you all know their story. 



