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tem at the factory was simply offering a premium on poor milk. 

 If we are going to pay for all grades of milk alike, why should 

 one strive to have better cows? Why not go out and buy a herd 

 of cows that will give 50 or 60 pounds of milk each that only 

 passes the State test? There is no incentive for a man to im- 

 prove his herd, except to raise the milk flow, and the thinner the 

 milk the better, provided it will stand the test. Just why so 

 many factories in Allegany county should discard the Babcock 

 test, and why there should be so much opposition to it, I do not 

 understand." 



Which is best, to sell our milk or to patronize the creamery? 



Mr. Rogers.— It will depend on what you get back. The ques- 

 tion is an indefinite one. If a man can utilize the skim-milk at 

 a good profit, the creamery may be the beet place. If not, the 

 cheese factory or the shipping station may prove more desirable. 



A Farmer. — I patronize the creamery, raising the cream at 

 home. It is called for by a gatherer. Some of the patrons use 

 the separator, others the Cooley system, but the cream is paid for 

 on the Babcock test basis. 



Mr. Cook. — We have shipping stations, creameries and cheese 

 factories in onr county, and I have noticed that the price of 

 milk at the shipping stations is always based on the value of 

 milk for butter and cheese. When the prices for these products go 

 up, up goes the station's price for milk. When it drops, then down 

 goes the station's price. But there is not enough milk consumed 

 at home. Some farmers do not consume much, if any. Does 

 any one know why? Stop and consider. There is more digest- 

 ible feeding value in a quart of milk than in a quart of oysters. 

 The milk costs, perhaps, four cents, the oysters from 30 to 60 

 cents per quart. 



To Mr. Cooli. — I have been informed that you have stated that the 

 Gravity Cream Separator is a fraud. Now, I and a number of farmers 

 near here have been using it for the past three summers asi well aa 

 winters, and have failed to discover any fraud or that we could not make 

 as good butter as by any other process. Will you please tell us wherein 

 the fraud lies? 



Answer. — That's a good introduction, but I'm not going to take 

 back any thing. But what is a fraud? That which represents 

 itself to be something else. The so-called gravity separator Is 



