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have it. Oftentimes it is strained through four thicknesses; 

 wire strainer first, and then passed through cloth. We have 

 worked at it for a long- time, and it is our aim to get it as 

 clean as possible, because our bread and butter depend upon 

 our getting tliat milk in the very best shape to satisfy the 

 demands of the New York market. 



We have found that it is a very great point in our favor 

 to have it thoroughly cooled. As soon as we can we put it 

 into the cooling vat. It is a great benefit to it to have 

 it thoroughly aerated. We sometimes take a quart or pint 

 dipper and stir it thoroughly. It gives a great deal better 

 satisfaction where this is done. It may be interesting to 

 you for me to relate a little experience which I had with 

 one of our buyers in Brooklyn, and by which I was able to 

 obviate almost entirely this rank smell which they sometimes 

 complain of. I was shipping regularly six cans, and this 

 buyer wrote up to me saying, " Your milk is so rank I cannot 

 use it. I wish you would do something." I took six cans, and 

 I wrote him that I would tie a string in the handle of three of 

 them, and three of them I would not. I did not tell him which 

 the three were that contained the milk that I had treated. 

 I took three cans and tied the strings in the handles, and 

 then took a quart of pure spring water and, just before I put 

 the lid on to ship the cans to the station, poured it in and 

 stirred it thoroughly with the dipper. On the handles of the 

 cans that I put the water into I tied a red string, and when the 

 milk went down to New York my customer wrote back to me 

 that he wished I would ship all the milk like the milk in the 

 three cans marked with the red string. There is something 

 within the range of my own experience. That milk did not 

 have that rank smell which so often comes up from a can when 

 you first open it. 



Mr. HiNMAN. Wasn't that the animal odor that you get 

 rid of by aerating? 



The PresidExXT. That is right. I think the closed pail 



