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"distrust" one which I think will be found far more helpful as 

 a means of arriving- at the truth, one which will satisfy the 

 creamery management far better, the word " investigate." 



Do not distrust but investigate. I am confident that most 

 creamery managements will gladly meet candid and sincere 

 patrons more than half way in the investigation of apparent 

 discrepancies and in the rectification of any proved inaccuracy 

 or injustice. When the day of general mutual investigation 

 dawns in creamery work there will be greater harmony be- 

 tween patron and management and better work all around. 



UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT 



AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



VERMONT 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



BURLINGTON, VT. 

 Special Bulletin, October, 1899. 



SAMPLING MILK AND CREAM. 



Dairymen are learning to use the Babcock test more every 

 year upon their individual cows or the entire dairy, either using 

 it themselves or having tests made for them at the creamery 

 or by the experiment station. The results of analysis are 

 useless and misleading if obtained on poor samples. There 

 is reason to believe that many do not understand how easy it 

 is to take an incorrect sample. 



The following directions for accurate sample taking are 

 printed for the information of the dairymen of the state. 

 Copies will be sent without charge to any address on applica- 

 tion to the Experiment Station, Burlington, Vt. 



1. To test individual cows. — Provide as many fruit jars 

 (pints or quarts) as there are cows to be tested. (Wide- 

 mouthed bottles will do if jars cannot be obtained. If used, 

 they should have tight corks. Narrow mouthed bottles make 

 accurate sampling difficult and often impossible.) 



Label each jar. Into each put preservative to keep the milk 

 sweet. (Use either formalin, sometimes called formaldehyde, 

 about 20 to 30 drops; or corrosive sublimate, colored with 

 analin red, about ten grains; or potassium bichromate, not 

 more than ten grains. Formalin is preferable and non- 

 poisonous, the other two are poisons and should be handled 

 carefully. These may be obtained at any drug store or at 

 the local creamery.) 



At the first milking pour the entire milk of the cow back 

 and forth from one pail to another not less than three times 



