90 THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



iment station. The empty cream bottle is placed in the 

 specially adapted left hand pan, is counterpoised by the slide 

 and weights or both, and then eighteen grams of cream are 

 pipetted against an added eighteen gram weight. The small- 

 er cut shows a new scale made by Henry Troemner, 710 Market 



Street, Philadelphia, Pa. It is as 

 nearly rust proof as possible, its 

 three inch bearings are set with 

 agate and its pans are made of por- 

 celain. Its method of use is simi- 

 lar to that indicated for the Spring- 

 er scale. These scales with weights, 

 troemner scale. cos t from eight to ten dollars and 



both are excellently adapted to the purpose. 



ERRORS OF INTENT. 



I believe in the "open door" system in a creamery. I would 

 have the management open its books and its testing opera- 

 tions to patrons. I know of one creamery where the test is 

 done in secret and the books kept under lock and key. • Se- 

 crecy is unwise; publicity disarms suspicion. Dishonest 

 methods of sampling or testing are used occasionally. I 

 believe that "occasionally" is as strong a word as is war- 

 ranted by the facts. I feel that ninety or ninety-five per 

 cent of the troubles which agitate the patrons as to the test 

 system are imaginary rather than real. The phrase is wor- 

 thy of repetition and emphasis. Nine-tenths or more of the 

 discrepencies in results are apparent rather than real. Yet, 

 unfortunately, sometimes errors of intent, deliberate dishon- 

 esty, exist. I have, however, no sympathy for a patron 

 who growls, or swears, or whines, who claims that he has no 

 recourse, that he is in the hands of the management and must 

 take what they give him, who alleges incompetence or worse, 

 without striving to correct it or to confirm his allegations by 

 investigation. He has recourse. He can, if he will, work out 

 his own salvation, either by his own hand, by that of some 

 bright young man or woman, or by that of Uncle Sam. If he is 

 sincere, if he really wants to learn the truth, he can help him- 

 self or be helped to attain the right in the manner already 

 cited. 



One of my former associates on the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture was wont to say, that in this era of trusts, which are 

 viewed with some suspicion, there is the one trust we should 

 accept to a greater extent than we do, and that is "trust one 

 another." The present conditions in this state do not in my 

 judgment warrant the wholesale feeling of distrust which is 

 prevalent among patrons. I would substitute for the word 



