412 ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



The SECRETARY: I want to rise in defense of Brother Fenste- 

 maker. I have never seen it done at a creamery and I have never 

 seen it done anywhere; but I have heard farmers say they have 

 taken butter, a little rancid and stronj;, and put it in with the fresh 

 butter and churned it, and it would take the tlavor of fresh butter. 

 Others say they chftrned it in the buttermilk, and in that way are 

 able to sell the bad butter. 



MR. HUTCHISON: That would be a violation of the Pure Food 

 Law. 



A Member: I do not see how they could improve that butter much 

 without melting it up and renovating it. The only instance I kno'w 

 of, was a man who had some butter that spoiled on his hands 

 and he came to us and wanted to know if we could do anything 

 with it. We told him he could send up half a dozen tubs and we 

 would see what we could do. We took the butter and put it in a 

 fresh churning of buttermilk and churned it for a long time, and 

 worked it and churned it again, and worked with it for several 

 hours, and in the end we could not see that that butter had im- 

 proved much in flavor; but we knew one thing, that it nearly spoiled 

 our churn, and it took several days to disinfect it. 



The SECRETARY: The trouble with that comes from there hav- 

 ing been so much rancidity in the butter. If the butter had not 

 been quite so rancid, you could have discovered that it was improved 

 considerably by going through that process. 



On motion, the meeting adjourned to 7.30 o'clock this evening. 



Tuesday Evening, January 24, 1905. 



The meeting was called to order by Mr. Clark, Chairman. 



The CHAIR: The first thing in order is the report of the Micro- 

 scopist and Hygienist, Dr. George G. Groff, Lewisburg, Pa. 



Dr. Groff read the following report: 



REPORT OF MICROSCOPIST AND HYGIENIST. 



By Dr. Geo. G. Groff, Lewisburg, Pa. 



During the past year contagious and infectious diseases seem to 

 have been peculiarly prevalent in most parts of the State. One of 

 the most serious of these is typhoid fever, which has been called a 

 disease peculiarly belonging to the farm, though this is no longer 



