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5. More skilful buttermakers are needed, and especially men who 

 know how to prepare and use good cultures. This is really not a disad- 

 vantage, as it would tend to drive the poor men out of the business and 

 the skillful buttermakers would command higher wages. 



Briefly, the points to observe in the making of pasteurized butter are: 

 Be careful not to take in any milk containing over two-tenths of 1 per 

 cent, acid; use a pasteurizer large enough to heat all the milk required 

 for the separator or separators, that there may be no delay in the separ- 

 ating; deliver the milk directly to the machine from the pasteurizer; use 

 plenty of oil on the upper bearing of the separator, and run it slightly 

 more loose than when skimming at ordinary temperatures: cool the cream 

 to a ripening temperature of about 05 degrees as soon as it comes from 

 the separator, or if pasteurizing the cream only, as soon as it leaves the 

 heater; -use 10 to 15 per cent, of a clean flavored culture in the sweet 

 cream after cooling; ripen to about .4 per cent, of acid, then cool to churn- 

 ing temperature; ripen the cream to about .5 to .G per cent, of acid for 

 churning; churn cream testing 30 to 35 per cent, fat at about 50 to 52 

 degrees, salt, work and prepare for market in the usual Avay. 



The essentials for the successful making of pasteurized butter are, 

 proper facilities for heating and cooling the cream, the use of a pure cul- 

 ture, and a buttermaker who has the necessary skill and brains to watch 

 details and observe the various changes needed to malie fine butter. 



The Committee on Resolutions makes the following report, which is 

 unanimously adopted: 



Resolved, That the thanks of this Association be extended to the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, Wilson, in appreciation of his work for the dairy 

 interests of the country, through the Dairy Division of the Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Resolved, That this Association express its appreciation of the Depart- 

 ment of Agi-iculture in assigning W. D. Collier for attendance at our 

 meeting, and that we express to Mr. Collier our appreciation of his ser- 

 vices in scoring the butter. 



Resolved, That we congratulate Commissioner of Internal Revenue 

 Yerkes. and Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury, upon the 

 impartial and satisfactory manner in which the revenue laws concerning 

 imitation products have been enforced, and hereby express our confidence 

 in them, and our appreciation of their honest and fearless administration 

 of the laws which are of such great importance to the protection of the 

 dairy interests. 



Resolved, That the thanks of this Association be extended to the City 

 of Plymouth for its hospitality, and the encouragement its citizens have 

 given this Association, and especially to the mayor for his warm words of 

 welcome and the Schlosser Brothers for their untiring efforts in making 

 this meeting a success. 



