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I am not always sure that the creams are properly mixed prior 

 to sampling. 



Prof. Decker: — In this connection note the McKay cream 

 sampHng device concerning which I spoke yesterday, which I 

 hold here (showing it.) The use of such a device should ob- 

 viate much of the doubt as to the accuracy of cream sampling. 



A Member : — What proportion of your product is milk and 

 what cream? 



Mr. Priest:- — It is now more than half cream. 



A Member: — Do you churn gathered or delivered cream 

 separately from that derived from the milk? 



Mr. Priest : — No, it is all mixed together. 



A Member :- — Do you treat your ten percent cream dif- 

 ferently than the 40 percent cream, or is it all dumped into the 

 one vat? 



Mr. Priest : — It is all put in one vat. But when there is 

 much thin cream the churning is not as complete as is desirable 

 and there is waste in the buttermilk. 



A Member : — Is there any creamery man in the hall that 

 receives thin cream from 10 to 20 percent? If there is, does he 

 dump it into the milk vat and run it through the separator? And 

 if so, what is the effect of running thin cream through the 

 separator ? 



A Member: — I am manager for H. B. Hood & Son, a pro- 

 prietary concern. We take in both cream and milk, dump the 

 cream into the milk and run it all through the separator. If we 

 get short of milk, we try not to run so much cream in at the 

 same time. And if we get short of milk and quite a lot of cream 

 comes in, we dump a lot of skimmmilk right back into the vat, 

 and let it go through again, — we do not calculate to run cream 

 that would test over twelve or fifteen percent. 



A Member : — Do you not get more loss in your skim milk 

 in that way? 



A Member : — Not if properly handled and if one does not 

 get too much cream in at one time. 



Mr. Priest: — You do not pour in sour cream, do you? 



Answer : — We let the patron take that back. 



President Bruce: On account of the special meeting this 

 afternoon of the Woman's Auxiliary, at which Mrs. Howie is 

 to speak, the order of our programme will be changed that she 

 may now talk to us concerning The Dairy Calf. Without in- 

 troduction, I will call upon Mrs. Howie. 



