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stein for making cheese. If you would adopt the Babcock test 

 throughout it would tend to improve the quality of your milk and 

 also encourage the farmer in taking better care of his milk. 



j\lii, Houge: 1 am intensely interested in this matter of bet- 

 ter milk. 1 do not wish to take your time, but I know that I voice 

 the sentiment of every man who is interested in the cheese busi- 

 ness in New York when I say that that is the most serious prob- 

 lem that confronts us to-day, the poor milk delivered to us. You 

 niay say all you want to about it being our duty to send such 

 milk back. We cannot assume that responsibility. Factories 

 are operated to-day by men who are not always competent to 

 stand up and tell you what kind of morning's milk they are get- 

 ting. We do know it to be a fact that many of the farmers and 

 many of the places where they keep milk to bring to the cheese 

 factories and creameries would not be tolerated for one minute 

 if the milk was to be sent to the city. 1 would like to ask why the 

 state department should be less vigilant than the city, the re- 

 quirements less than the city or municipality. Why should not 

 they demand the same kind of milk, the same conditions about the 

 barn, that the city would? It is to be manufactured for the same 

 purpose, to eat. The point is, first, with regard to the Babcock 

 test, we cannot take any concerted action. It is unconstitutional 

 to say that every man shall buy milk just as I see fit. I under- 

 stand it is beyond our control to say every man shall buy milk by 

 the Babcock test. We do believe that it is better to encourage 

 the Babcock test, but if patrons say they will not deliver by the 

 Babcock test that settles it. 



With regard to the sanitation of skimmed cheese, I agree it 

 should be referred to a committee for consideration and further 

 investigation. It is a very serious matter, and some permanent 

 action should be taken to better conditions along that line. I 

 make a motion to that efi^ect. 



Dean Cook : I have never attended a cheese meeting at which 

 the spirit seemed so right as now and it seems to me it is the 

 psychological time for these cheese men to appoint a committee 

 representing the different phases of the cheese interests, the pro- 

 ducing and selling ends; that committee to report to the legisla- 



